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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Delete blank spaces and blank lines in a file Post 302934734 by rbatte1 on Tuesday 10th of February 2015 08:21:23 AM
Old 02-10-2015
Well, that rather depends. There are several tools to do a variety of things, but can you show us some sample input & output wrapped in CODE tags for clarity.

It would be good to know the OS and version you are running so we don't suggest tools your won't have. The output from uname -a would be useful.



Regards,
Robin
 

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