[CS-FSLUG] An easy way to remove blank lines?

[Jukka]

2005/9/12, Josiah Ritchie <jritchie at bible.edu>:
> 
> This takes into account the possibility that there is 0 or more
> whitespace characters between the start and end of the line.
> 
> sed '/^\s*$/d' < index.html > index.html
> 
> It worked for me. WARNING! It will overwrite your file. backup before
> you issue this command. Take off the > index.html to have it only output
> the changes to the screen and not the file.
> 
> JSR/

Hi Josiah!

Your warning was important - for some reason it was not possible to
use same name for both input and output. Every one of the scripts
produced blank files until I renamed output file to something else
than input! But these are fine scripts! Thank you!

Blessings,
Jukka