From: Stephen_Reilly at domain dell.com
Date: Fri 17 Aug 2001 - 11:53:40 IST
sed '/^$/d' file
will strip blank lines, do you want to strip out lines with only whitespace
in them as well ? If so use something like sed -e '/^$/d' -e '/^[ \t]*$/d'
file
Though I'm not sure if I have that one right off hand ...
Could use grep as well, same patterns but not as much fun.
steve
-----Original Message-----
From: hrishy [mailto:hrishys at domain yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: 17 August 2001 11:25
To: ilug at domain linux.ie
Subject: [ILUG] striping file from blank lines
Hello'
could anybody tell me how to strip blank lines from a
file.i dont want to use perl
regards
hrishy
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