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Tagged as awk

Posted by jaduks on Jan 07, 2009

Ways to delete blank lines (in vi,using sed,awk,grep)

In vi , escape mode type

:g/^$/ d

to delete all the blank lines.

Other alternatives:

$ grep -v '^$' file
$ grep '.' file
$ sed '/^$/d' file
$ sed -n '/^$/!p' file
$ awk NF file
$ awk '/./' file

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