>Mary had a little lamb, it's fleece was white as snow. >A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. That's almost what I want. I still want the 'A quick ...' line to continue after '... snow.' on the same line as in : ... white as snow. A quick brown ... After thinking about it, what I wanted is to format an entire paragraph of X number of sentences as a single long line of text. Then when that very long line is fed into a word processor, it formats as a paragraph as expected. Your approach led me to the solution: sed -e :a -e 'N;s/\n\([^\x0a]\)/ \1/;ta' infile >outfile Thank You -- Bill Gradwohl YCC (817) 224-9400 x211 www.ycc.com SPAMstomper Protected E-mail www.stomperware.com
