Awk and sort (of text files)

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Tue Jun 30 23:34:17 UTC 2015


On 06/30/2015 03:48 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
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>
> The "NL" is not a command. It is simply a piece of text to insert into
> the line in place of newlines. (I'm not sure why - you can certainly
> hold multiple lines in the hold space.)

My guess is that it's easier to treat every paragraph as one long line, 
replacing the newlines at the end.


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