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Old 05-08-2009
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Using SED on Windows xp-GnuWin32
I installed the GnuWin32 tools on my Windows XP system but I cannot .. for the life of me .. get the SED tool to work for me.

All I need to do is remove blank lines for a text file. My script is ...
Code:
sed -e '/^$/ d' xxx.txt > yyy.txt
The error msg is:
Code:
sed: -e expression #1, char 1: unknown command: `''
I've tried remove the single quotes, using the -f parameter, etc.

Do I need to do something re/DOS?

Thanks, Ms. Holmberg





Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 05-08-2009 at 08:53 AM.. Reason: added code tags
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try double quotes instead of single.
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