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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk :quick question removing empty line. Post 302805059 by rveri on Thursday 9th of May 2013 03:02:21 PM
Old 05-09-2013
Thanks Yoda,
I was looking for something like this
Code:
awk '$0 !~ /^#/ && NF{ action here }' file

, it worked great, but it is also removing exiting empty lines, but that is fine in this case,

- && NF : worked and seems it removed empty lines.


Scrutinizer ,
I dont wanted to use grep -v, as wanted to pass in one awk statement. Thanks again...

Jotne, This worked great as well,
Code:
awk '!/^#|^$/' file

,
But surprised it leaves only one blank line on the data file, after it removed all starting hash and blank lines.
Thanks all. .
 

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PAPS(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   PAPS(1)

NAME

       paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango

SYNOPSIS

       paps [options] files...

DESCRIPTION

       paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves
       through the pango ft2 backend.

OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with  two  dashes  (`-').   A  summary  of  options	is
       included below.

       --landscape
	      Landscape output. Default is portrait.

       --columns=cl
	      Number of columns output. Default is 1.

       --font=desc
	      Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12.

       --rtl  Do rtl layout.

       --paper ps
	      Choose paper size. Known paper sizes are legal, letter, a4. Default is A4.

       --bottom-margin=bm
	      Set bottom margin in postscript points (1/72 inch). Default is 36.

       --top-margin=tm
	      Set top margin. Default is 36.

       --left-margin=lm
	      Set left margin. Default is 36.

       --right-margin=rm
	      Set right margin. Default is 36.

       --help Show summary of options.

       --header
	      Draw page header for each page.

       --markup
	      Interpret the text as pango markup.

       --encoding=ENCODING
	      Assume the documentation encoding is ENCODING.

       --lpi  Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing.

       --cpi  Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size.

       --stretch-chars
	      Indicates  that  characters  should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops
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AUTHOR

       paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>.

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								  April  17, 2006							   PAPS(1)
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