Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site sequent.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!tektronix!ogcvax!sequent!merlyn From: merlyn@sequent.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: how to double space text? - (nf) Message-ID: <431@sequent.UUCP> Date: Sun, 18-Mar-84 20:10:48 EST Article-I.D.: sequent.431 Posted: Sun Mar 18 20:10:48 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 01:03:08 EST References: <119@haddock.UUCP> Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Portland Lines: 23 ONLY TURKEYS SHOULD GOBBLE THIS LINE... (others can ignore) >> In our (Sys III) system, any of the following double space text: >> >> pr -t -d [filename] >> >> awk '{ print $0; print }' >> >> while read x; do echo "$x\\n"; done >> >> Take your pick. >> >> John Levine, ima!johnl Cute... don't try the awk one... it prints EVERY LINE twice, not double space. In awk (pretty sure this has been this way since V7, Sys III, X.XBSD etc.) "print" without args is like "print $0". Too bad. print "" works though. Randal L. Schwartz, esq. (creator of rediculously long AWK programs) Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. UUCP: ...!tektronix!ogcvax!sequent!merlyn BELL: (503)626-5700