On 12/1/05, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> 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. So many ways of solving my problem show that this list is quite creative! Paul
