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

Brian Derr bderr at myrealbox.com
Tue Sep 13 19:20:24 CDT 2005


On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 07:35 -0400, Josiah Ritchie wrote:
> sed '/^\s*$/d' < index.html > index.html

In response to this and the post my Stephen the answer is '-i'.
	sed -i '/^\s*$/d' index.html

I would only recommend the -i switch after you have tested the output
without it first though!  Perhaps a '| more'?  :-)
-- 
Brian

The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after
him.  -- Proverbs 20:7





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