On March 27, 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > does anyone know a way to automate inserting blank lines before > and after each line in a file that's too long to fit on the screen > all at once and then hard wrap those long lines? Well, since adding a blank line after each line-break puts a blank line before the next line, you (should?) only need to add newlines after each line which can easily be done with sed: $ sed G input_file.txt > output_file_with_spaces.txt If you want to format the lines at the same time, you can do that with "fmt" $ sed G input.txt | fmt > formatted_output_with_spaces.txt By default, fmt formats to 72 characters wide but you can adjust that using fmt -80 Hope this helps, -tim _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list