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From the cat(1) manpage
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-s Squeeze multiple adjacent empty lines, causing the output to be single spaced.
Code:
cat -s file
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I should read again the man pages for the commands most used

On my AIX box, I must use -r or -S
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-r Replaces multiple consecutive empty lines with one empty line. This flag is
identical to the -S flag.

-s Does not display a message if the cat command cannot find an input file. This
flag is identical to the -q flag.

Note: Previously, the -s flag handled tasks now assigned to the -S flag.

-S Replaces multiple consecutive empty lines with one empty line. This flag is
identical to the -r flag.
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