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Originally Posted by valkyriesound
There must be an easy way of getting rid of this look in the text:
"street torches as well as the somewhat brighter light of the moon.
Sham knelt
where she was, watching the dark mansion intently for movement that might
indicate someone was inside."
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Again with sed, if that text is in mytext.txt:
C:\> sed ":start;/[a-zA-Z] *\$/{N;s/ *\n/ /g;b start;}" mytext.txt > result.txt
That joins the lines that end with an alphabetical character with the next one.
NOTE: it's the first time that I use flow control in sed. Nice :-). I used the following manual to construct that command:
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html