Getting a text file rid of all superfluous blank lines

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Dec 1 22:27:54 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 16:18, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Thursday, December 01, 2005 1:38 PM -0700 Guy Fraser 
> <guy at incentre.net> 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.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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