[ILUG] striping file from blank lines

[Stephen_Reilly at dell.com]

sed '/^$/d' file
will strip blank lines, do you want to strip out lines with only whitespace
in them as well ? If so use something like sed -e '/^$/d' -e '/^[ \t]*$/d'
file
Though I'm not sure if I have that one right off hand ...

Could use grep as well, same patterns but not as much fun. 

steve

-----Original Message-----
From: hrishy [mailto:hrishys at yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: 17 August 2001 11:25
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: [ILUG] striping file from blank lines


Hello'

could anybody tell me how to strip blank lines from a
file.i dont want to use perl 

regards
hrishy

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