Another FBSD utility/script question

[Vince]

Hmm
sed -e "/^$/d" FILENAME > newfilename
will do the job if they are empty lines.


Vince


Jack Stone wrote:
> Here I come with another easy one for most on the list -- except for me.
> 
> I have 12,000 plus lines that have an empty line in between each real
> line, like so:
> 
> this is a line of info 1
> (empty)
> this is a line of info 2
> 
> this is a line of info 3
> 
> etc, etc
> 
> To eliminate each "empty" line in between the "info" lines would take a
> long, long time.
> Thus my question: what tool is available or syntax to remove the 6000
> empty lines so there's no space in between?
> 
> This has got to be an easy one, except when one doesn't know the answer.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jack of all trades, master of only some!
> 
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