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You mean replace each newline character with two newline characters?

perl -p -i -e 's/\n/\n\n/g' yourfile.txt

Something like that?

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:

> I've got a very large file with paragraphs separated only by "\n".
> How do I put a blank line _after_ each newline?
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