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. Cheers, Magnus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
