I am attempting to delete blank lines in my file and I've used this command:
sed '/^$/d' $file > $file.fixed
all this seems to do is copy the file and not delete the blank lines located at the end of the file. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. (3 Replies)
I have a file which has the first blank line:
sundev22$cat /t1/bin/startallocs
/t1/bin/startallocsys 123
sundev22$
Is there a command to remove this first blank line? Thanks for help -A (4 Replies)
Hi All,
When i am runing a script from home directory the output is fine, but whenever i am running a script from any of the directory the output is fine while a "Blank file" is created named as "1" in the particular directory.
Will you please suggest any options to fix this problem. It... (1 Reply)
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)
All,
I have a file which contains two entry with spaces (either one or more than one space). ex.
/tmp/scripts/sql CUST_YR_END_INI.sql
/tmp/scripts/sql CUST_WK_END_INI.sql
/tmp/scripts/sql CUST_MTH_END_INI.sql
/tmp/scripts/sql CUST_YR_END_INC.sql
now I want to... (11 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a file and I need to delete the lines that are blank and is starting with some characters below. Something like below:
Regular Ascii File:
Line1: AGODA1 BUSAN||SK Lord Beach 4/6/2012 4/7/2012 68060
Line2: AGODA2 BUSAN||SK Beach Hotel 4/6/2012 4/7/2012 610200
Line3: ... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I have file1 with line blank e.g.
$cat file1
aaa 111 222 333 444
bbb 555 666 777 888
ccc
ddd 1010 1010 1010
eee
then i need delete the lines blank (3 and 5) so show
$cat file1
aaa 111 222 333 444
bbb 555 666 777 888
ddd 1010 1010 1010 (5 Replies)