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I know there is a similar question in SO How can I replace mutliple empty lines with a single empty line in bash?. But my question is can this be implemented by just using the sed command?
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To answer the question as asked, you'd have to do sed 's/pattern. */&\n/' , otherwise you'll insert the newline right after the match instead of at the end of the line.
You can tell sed to carry out multiple operations by just repeating -e (or -f if your script is in a file). sed -i -e 's/a/b/g' -e 's/b/d/g' file makes both changes in the single file named file , in-place.
Give this a try:
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