Simple example using GNU Sed:
printf '01:00AM\nReceived from Ana\n02:00 PM\n03:00 AM\nReceived from
Bob\n' | sed 's/[AP]M/\0\n\n/g; s/Received from/\n\n\0/g'
For safety purposes, sed doesn't replace the contents of the file,
unless you pass `-i' to it.
2017-12-09T23:24:47+0100 a...@ncf.ca
Tested in Pluma, but other text editors should work similarly:
Use "find and replace" (Ctrl+H in Pluma). Make sure "Parse escape sequences"
is checked.
- replace "AM" with "AM\n\n"
- replace "PM" with "MP\n\n"
- replace "Received from" with "\n\nReceived from"
Hi friends
I have a big plain text (.txt) file that I would like to edit in the
following ways:
1. after every "AM" or "PM, insert two "Enter"s (line breaks .. like if
this were HTML)
2. before every "Received from", insert two "Enter"s
There might be a hundred to three hundred of
