Re: script to remove blank lines ?

[Michael Merten <mikemerten@yahoo.com>]

On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 12:25:03PM +0530, venu wrote:
> hi all shell scripters !
> 
> if in a file I have say 10 lines and some of them are blank lines ,how do i
> remove the blank lines ?
> 
> cherio
> venu
> 
Well, one way would be to 'cat <file> | tr -s '\n' > <newfile>',
IIRC.

Mike

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