Inserting Blank Line into File (sed/awk/?)

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

In article <1991Mar15.190607.5061 at convex.com> Tom Christiansen writes:
>From the keyboard of tkevans at oss670.UUCP (Tim Evans):
>:I would like to be able to insert blank lines at regular intervals
>    awk '{ print; if (!(NR % 3)) print "\n" }'

Nope.  Either leave out the newline in the print statement or use printf
instead of print.  The way you have it you get 2 lines instead of one.

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