RE: sed/vi how to concatenate all non-empty lines?

["Jean-Christian Imbeault" <jean_christian@example.com>]

Update,

col and the script you provided work fined, except that it removed all blank 
lines :) I was hoping to keep the blank lines as they separated the 
paragraphs from each other . . .

Jc

>From: OZAWA -Crouton- Sakuro <crouton@example.com>
>Reply-To: tlug@example.com
>To: tlug@example.com
>Subject: RE: sed/vi how to concatenate all non-empty lines?
>Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:09:43 +0900
>
>At Wed, 25 Jul 2001 03:39:18 +0000,
>Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:
>
> > So how to I get sed or vi to concatenate all lines within a paragraph 
>into
> > one linebut keep the empty lines between paragraphes? (i.e. concatenate 
>all
> > consecutive non-empty lines together)?
>
>$ cat -s input.txt | sed join.sed
>
>join.sed is: BEGIN--cut here--cut here
>#n
>
>/^ *$/!{
>	H
>}
>/^ *$/{
>	x
>	s/\n/ /g
>	s/^ //
>	p
>}
>${
>	x
>	s/\n/ /g
>	s/^ //
>	p
>}
>END--cut here--cut here
>
>Don't forget '#n', or use 'sed -n' instead.
>
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