[ILUG] sed

[olearypj at rte.ie]

Quoting Baruch Even <baruch at ev-en.org>:


> 
> You can try the command: sed -e '1,/^[[:space:]]\?$/d'
> to try to handle lines with a single space in them (\n is a space).
> 
> I couldn't find how to specify \n by itself.
> 
> Baruch
> 
Thanks a million, taht did the trick for me. The only problem remaining is a few
lines at the bottom of the body, but I can delete them by playing around with
head or tail


Thanks again

          Pat.

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