Comments on snippet: 'Delete blank lines with sed' Snipplr comments feed https://snipplr.com/ Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:48:46 +0000 bubnoff said on 21/May/2011 https://snipplr.com/view/53325/delete-blank-lines-with-sed <p>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`</p> Sat, 21 May 2011 03:04:11 UTC https://snipplr.com/view/53325/delete-blank-lines-with-sed