 Project Gutenberg remove line breaks

ID: project-gutenberg-remove-line-breaks

Ciro Santilli 37  Updated 2025-05-29  +Created 1970-01-01

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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