[ILUG] silly shell thing

From: John P. Looney (Kate) (jplooney-ilug at domain online.ie)
Date: Wed 24 May 2000 - 11:25:28 IST

 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'

 But neither did the trick...

Kate 

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