From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-10-13T04:14:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Removing blank lines

Stefan Lang <langstefan@gmx.at> writes:

> On Wednesday 12 October 2005 20:32, Esteban Manchado Vel�zquez wrote:
>> Hello Basi,
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 03:26:52AM +0900, basi wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > How does one delete blank lines from a text file? (I did try a
>> > number of things, but, I can't get any to work.)
>
>> zoso@velutha:~/tmp$ ruby -e 'puts File.readlines("test").find_all
>> {|line| line !~ /^$/}'
>
> similar:
>
>     ruby -e 'puts File.read("test").gsub(/\n{2,}/, "\n")'
      ruby -e 'print File.read("t").squeeze("\n")'

Know thy tools :-)

>   Stefan
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