Getting a text file rid of all superfluous blank lines

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Nov 30 11:58:50 UTC 2005


Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> Taking a text file, how can one eliminate at once all superfluous blank lines?

What is your definition of a "superfluous blank line"? Is that all blank 
lines, or all consecutive blank lines where the number is more than one?

If it's the latter, you may find "more -s filename" to your liking.

Paul.




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