From: nobuyoshi nakada <nobuyoshi.nakada@...>
Date: 2005-10-13T10:43:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Removing blank lines

Hi,

At Thu, 13 Oct 2005 03:26:52 +0900,
basi wrote in [ruby-talk:160238]:
> 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.)

  grep -v ^$ infile > outfile

To remove also lines contain whitespaces only:

  grep -v '^[ 	]*$' infile > outfile

-- 
Nobu Nakada