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= Project Gutenberg remove line breaks

https://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1132578.html

Their txt formats are so crap!

E.g. for;
``
wget -O pap.txt https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.txt.utf-8
``
a good one is:
``
perl -0777 -pe 's/(?<!\r\n)\r\n(?!\r\n)( +)?/ /g' pap.txt
``

The `( +)?` is for the endlessly many quoted letters they have, which use four leading spaces per line as a quote marker.

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