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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting need help on manipulating a file Post 302503818 by mirni on Friday 11th of March 2011 08:08:49 PM
Old 03-11-2011
I'd try to look at those blank lines a little closer. Try to pipe them to 'od' : they should differ, if they contain different whitespace characters.
Then, you could use e.g. sed to replace the white chars with something else:
Code:
[MIRO@stroke]$ echo -e "\r"  | od -x
0000000 0a0d
0000002

[MIRO@stroke]$ echo -e "\r" | sed 's/\x0D/blah/g'
blah

 

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