There are a lot of ways to change the amount of white space (space and tab
characters) in a line:
-
Berkeley systems have
cat -s
(
25.10
)
to replace sets of two or more blank lines with single blank lines.
If you don't have
cat -s
or need something different, look at
article
34.18
.
-
The
crush
(
25.11
)
script removes all blank lines.
-
Use
doublespace
and
triplespace
(
25.12
)
to double- and triple-space text.
-
The
pushin
(
25.13
)
script replaces multiple white space characters with a single space.
This can shorten long lines.
-
You can use
sed
to
indent lines of text before printing (
43.9
)
.
The
offset
(
35.7
)
shell script
does that more easily.
-
For other jobs, utilities like
awk
(
33.11
)
and
sed
(
34.24
)
will probably do what you want.
You have to understand how to program them before you use them.