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bubnoff on 05/11/11


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Delete blank lines with sed

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Find any line with beginning of line followed by zero or more tabs, spaces followed by end of line -- delete it.

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  1. sed '/^[\t ]*$/d' file

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Posted By: bubnoff on May 21, 2011

Used in conjuction with http://snipplr.com/view/53323/merge-lines-with-sed/ and tr to prettify clunky Sybase output for collection codes. Basically just saves a tree.

sed -e '$!N;s/\n/ /' -e '/^[\t ]*$/d' collection_codes.txt | tr -s ' ' >collection_codes_pretty_print.txt

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