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:
>> cat file | tr -s \\n
>> and
>> cat file | sed -e 's/\n\n/\n'
I've just realised that my earlier answer could have been shorter and
perlier - I'll be drummed out of Perl-mongers :-). This works nicely
perl -lne 'print if length' screwed_up_file
Regards,
Niall
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