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Old 10-11-2007
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thanks for the answer, but by doing this, you also ADD a empty line between
5 and 6, which before has no empty line between.

5
6

not
5

6



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Originally Posted by vgersh99 View Post
Code:
sed '/^$/d;G' myFile