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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk :quick question removing empty line. Post 302805065 by Yoda on Thursday 9th of May 2013 03:06:17 PM
Old 05-09-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by rveri
but it is also removing exiting empty lines, but that is fine in this case
If you don't want to remove existing empty lines, then I guess what Scrutinizer posted is the right approach.

Just add your action part to it:
Code:
awk '!/^#/ { action here } ' file

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       The file pathetc/distrib.pats is used by nnrpd to determine the default value of the Distribution: header.  Blank lines and lines beginning
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