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Hi ,

i'm searching for an easy solution to list a file without empty lines ,
i haven't found with cat and grep !

Anybody has an idea ?

thanks in advance

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Thanks a lot !

What a wonderful forum !

Can you explain what is the meaning of the point in this case ?

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From man regexp ...
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A period (.), when used outside of a bracket expression, is a basic Regular Expression that matches any printable or nonprintable character except <newline>
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