Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 08:55:44 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kalle_M=F8ller?= <freebsd-questions@k-moeller.dk> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: is there a way of usinf greo to find 3 or 4 blank lines? Message-ID: <8250ac3f0909062355g69a1cf5cj847e84aaee79b0c2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090906003651.GA7388@thought.org> References: <20090906003651.GA7388@thought.org>
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I know its not in commandline, but in vim (maybe even vi) you could just /\n\n\n This would find new lines... And you could jump between them with n.. and :set ruler so you can find linenumber On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > > in my manuscript, i have many places where i'ved used several > newlines to indicate a > jump in time, or topic, or mood, or <<whatever>>. i have lost the= se > vertical spacing > in all but my original draft. can i use grep somehow to find thes= e > extra newlines? > > if not grep, then sed, ed, or what?! > > tia, > > gary > > > > -- > Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service > Unix > http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org > The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > --=20 Med Venlig Hilsen Kalle R. M=F8ller
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