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put empty lines into a file

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vti

vti

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Feb 26, 2001
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There is a file which include Ctrl+L character end of the file.And all i want to do is put 21 empty lines up to Ctrl+L character.


Thanks for any help.

 
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awk '/^L/ {for (i=0;i<21;i++) printf &quot;\n&quot;} {print}' <file1 >file2

Note: type in Ctrl+V Ctrl+L for ^L
 
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