Hello... I happened upon this site when searching for an answer, and I consider myself a UNIX dummy, so here I am!

Here's my issue: I'm trying to use xargs to strip blank lines out of a group of files and copy the output to another directory, and I just can't figure out the syntax. Here's what I have:

xargs -I {} sed '/^$/d' {} < FILE_NAME_LIST.dat

Which works, but I can't figure out how to output it. If I use

xargs -I {} sed '/^$/d' {} < FILE_NAME_LIST.dat > /some/directory

or

xargs -I {} sed '/^$/d' {} > /some/directory < FILE_NAME_LIST.dat

I get a message stating that it's a directory, as if expecting the output to be a single file. If I use

xargs -I {} sed '/^$/d' {} > /some/directory/{} < FILE_NAME_LIST.dat

Then everything outputs to a file named '{}', instead of separate files based on the filenames in FILE_NAME_LIST.dat. I'm sure it's just a simple thing, but I can't think through it. Any takers? Thanks in advance!