On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 11:25:27AM +0100, John P. Looney (Kate) wrote:
> I've a file that for some reason a windows editor has put in double
> newlines everywhere.
>> Anyone got a good way of getting rid of them ? I tryed:
Not sure what exactly you mean, as a Windows editor will usually put in \r\n
as a line end, so do you have at the end of each line \r\n\r\n or just \n\n ?
If it's the former, you can simply zap the \r with tr and then the following
little pearl :-) will solve your problem
perl -ne 'if (length > 1) {print}' screwed_up_file
Can't ask for simpler than that, can you ? I'm sure a similar idea will work
in awk, but I'm trying to wean myself off extinct sea birds :-)
Regards,
Niall
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