Hi, On 8/16/07, Magnus Boman <captain.magnus@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 10:15 +0200, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
Hi all !
I would like to insert a new line on each second line, like that:
pre.txt: line1 line2 line3
After.txt: line1
line2
line3
I have found the "echo -e "\n" " command to actually insert a new line, but how to automate the process so every second line will get a new line ?
please help
Quick and easy; for i in `cat pre.txt`; do echo -e "$i\n"; done >after.txt
If that's all you want to do... If you do other sort of text manipulation, have a look at sed.
Or just use sed: cat your_file | sed G > new_file -- Mark Goldstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org