1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all I need to strip blank lines from the end of a file. I have searched and found topics on how to strip lines from the entirety of a file - however I need to limit this to only the last 3-4 lines. Any ideas? Thanks (4 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

can anyone show me how to delete blank lines from a file. thanks in advance (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi Guys, I have been trying to remove blank lines from a file with no success. I tried using all the following options on the file: tr -s '\n' < abc.txt grep -v "^$" abc.txt sed '/^$/d' abc.txt sed '/./!d' abc.txt awk '/./' abc.txt The file is a text file. (11 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi I have a text file that has blank lines at different places. How to remove all the blank lines in a file? Thanks Ashok (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I want to use diff to compare two files in a Perl file. But one of the files has some blank lines at the end. So I want to delete the blank lines from the file firstly and then use diff to compare them. But I dont know how to delete the blank lines from the files. Meanwhile, the system is... (5 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Consider a file named "testfile" The contents of file are as below first line added for test second line added for test third line added for test fourth line added for test fifth line added for test (5 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello All, I have a file with data as below. Each line consists of 21 fields. I am not able to load them back to the database. 50733339,"834","834 ","005010X279A1","N","Y","007977163","0001 ",30,"2110D ","EB ","EB007 ","2 ","Conditional Required Data Element Miss ing... (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, How do i remove continuos blank lines from a file. I have a file with data: abc; def; ghi; jkl; mno; pqr; In the above file, there are two blank lines. I want to remove, one out of them. My output should look like: (2 Replies)

9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi Gurus, Somebody can say me how to delete blank spaces and blank lines in a file unix, please. Thank you for advanced. (10 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All Need Help I have a file with the below format (ABC.TXT) : ®¿¿ABCDHEJJSJJ|XCBJSKK01|M|7348974982790 HDFLJDKJSKJ|KJALKSD02|M|7378439274898 KJHSAJKHHJJ|LJDSAJKK03|F|9898982039999 (cont......) I need to write a script where it will check for : blank lines (between rows,before... (6 Replies)