On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 11:00 +0000, Paul Smith wrote: > Taking a text file, how can one eliminate at once all superfluous > blank lines? I used to know of something that did that (something with various different reformatting options for massaging text files), but I can't think what it was. Quickly looking at the man file for the cat program, you could do something like: cat --squeeze-blank inputfilename -> outputfilename -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.