Re: Getting a text file rid of all superfluous blank lines

From: Paul Howarth (paul_at_city-fan.org)
Date: 11/30/05

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    Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:58:50 +0000
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    Paul Smith wrote:
    > Dear All
    >
    > Taking a text file, how can one eliminate at once all superfluous blank lines?

    What is your definition of a "superfluous blank line"? Is that all blank
    lines, or all consecutive blank lines where the number is more than one?

    If it's the latter, you may find "more -s filename" to your liking.

    Paul. 

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