On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 00:48, Bill Gradwohl wrote: > I'm looking for a utility that will change: > > Mary had a\n > little\n > lamb, it's fleece was white\n > as snow.\n > > To: > > Mary has a little lamb, it's fleece was white as snow. > > Further, I'd like it to recognize the period at the end of a sentence as the > only possible place where a new line might be appropriate as a separator > before the next paragraph. > > What I'm trying to do is format pages of text that have arbitrary newline > characters at position 72 and remove all of them except the ones that > separate paragraphs. The fmt utility can fix up the sentence above, but it > inserts newlines of its own. > > Does such a utility exist? > I use gedit and do a search and replace! search "\n" replace with ""
