Re^3: Adding back missing newlines between records

[johngg]

I don't see how that is supposed to work.

It's supposed to work because, as ikegami pointed out, you use the -0777 switch to make the interpreter slurp the whole file in one go, the equivalent of undefining $/ in a script. Thus, the global replace operates on a single string which is the whole file and the while implied by -p only iterates once.

I hope this is helpful.