RE: script to remove blank lines ?

[Wim Kerkhoff <wim@netmaster.ca>]

cat --help

cat -s temp > temp1

This will reduce multiple blank lines to 1 blank line, see the other responses
if you want that line gone too.  If you have a long file with a page of blank
space, cat -s README would fix that for you.   

On 10-Aug-99 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 ?
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