On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 16:18, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Thursday, December 01, 2005 1:38 PM -0700 Guy Fraser > <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > sed -e 's;^\w*$;;' file-to-clean | grep -v '^$' > > Why not use egrep to do it in one pass? Something like: > > egrep -v '^\w*$' file-to-clean Neither of these leave any blank lines. The idea was to collapse repeated blank lines or lines containing only white space to one. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
