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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Removing blank lines from comma seperated and space seperated file. Post 302314448 by pinnacle on Friday 8th of May 2009 10:21:02 AM
Old 05-08-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by devtakh
Code:
sed -e '/^$/d' -e '/^,*,/d' fileA fileB


cheers,
Devaraj Takhellambam

Code:
sed -e '/^,*,/d' file1

Quote:
$ cat file1
ABC,ABC,ABC
,,,
ABC,ABC,ABC
ABC,ABC,ABC
ABC,ABC,ABC
,abc,,
ABC,ABC
output

Quote:
$ sed -e '/^,*,/d' file1
ABC,ABC,ABC
ABC,ABC,ABC
ABC,ABC,ABC
ABC,ABC,ABC
ABC,ABC

its removing the line

Quote:
,abc,,
which it is not supposed to.
i want only blank comma seperated line to be removed like the below
Quote:
,,,
, , ,
Appreciate help
 

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