Getting a text file rid of all superfluous blank lines

[Mike McCarty]

Paul Smith wrote:
> On 12/1/05, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>>>sed -e 's;^\w*$;;' file-to-clean | grep -v '^$'
>>>
>>>Why not use egrep to do it in one pass? Something like:
>>>
>>>egrep -v '^\w*$' file-to-clean
>>
>>Neither of these leave any blank lines.  The idea was
>>to collapse repeated blank lines or lines containing only
>>white space to one.
> 
> 
> So many ways of solving my problem show that this list is quite creative!
> 
> Paul
> 

Do you have gcc installed on your system?

Mike
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