One-liner to convert two newlines to one?

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Published on 2009-09-24T00:04:37Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 0:48 UTC
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I have a file where I want to convert "\n" to " " and "\n\n" to "\n". For example:

I
had
a
toy
.

It
was
good
.

Becomes:

I had a toy .
It was good .

Does anyone have a Unix one-liner for this operation?

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