For thos who are not familiar with
awk, but still want a quick and easy
way of removing blank lines from a
flat ascii file, remember that the
use of 'cat' in conjuction with
'grep' is just as effective.
cat file1 | grep -v '^$' >file2
mv -f file2 file1
This tip generously supported by: dave_tomkins@tands.co.uk
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