Re: script to remove blank lines ?

[Stephan Engelke <engelke@math.uni-hamburg.de>]

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 12:25:03PM +0530, venu wrote:

> if in a file I have say 10 lines and some of them are blank lines ,how do i
> remove the blank lines ?

grep -v ^$ <filename>

This gets you all lines with "something" between the line's beginning (^)
and its end ($).  Or rather "without nothing" between beginning and
end (-v is grep's negation option).

So long -- Stephan
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