syntax problem

rajan_ka1 · #1 (**permalink**) 03-08-2006

dear friends,

I have a large size file containg two fields data

like this

*** ****
122 222
***** *****
***** *****
232 233

i have file like this.

i want to remove blank lines from file .

i think awk is servive this problem

i wrote a awk command but the error is coming .

mu command is like this

awk ' $1 != /*/*/*/' file.dat > new

but this command syntax has problem

please anyone correct the syntax and let me know.

gauravgoel · #2 (**permalink**) 03-08-2006

a workaround solution

Quote:

awk -F '*' '{print $1}' f3.txt|awk NF > new

where f3.txt is input file
tell me if you were looking for somthing else

Gaurav

ask.jackal · #3 (**permalink**) 03-08-2006

sed '/^$/d' $filename

John Arackal

vgersh99 · #4 (**permalink**) 03-08-2006

Code:

nawk 'NF' myFile

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