note Cristoforo Use the file slurp <strike>argument</strike> switch, '0'<p> <c>perl -i.bak -0pe 's/\n\n/\n/g' inputtext </c> <p><b>Update:</b> I chose zero instead of octal 0777 thinking it would be clearer but GrandFather may have a good point, (a byte having possible values of 0 to 255 and the base 10 value of 0777 is 511). I guess I was thinking also that double zero, 00, is the switch for paragraph mode reading. 921345 921345