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Remove blank lines from file

Name: Nick
Date: September 25, 2002 at 10:37:47 Pacific
OS: Unix
CPU/Ram: 256

Comment:

What is the command to remove blank lines from a file. Example of the file: line1 line2 line3 line4

Reply:

Try: sed "/^$/d" input_file > output_file mv output input or grep -v "^$" input_file > output_file mv output input

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Name: Nick
Date: September 25, 2002 at 12:42:13 Pacific

Reply:

Hi ASB, Your script works. Thanks.

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