Any of your options tried does what you want them to do, so I guess your file has some "hidden" features like e.g. non-printing control characters. Try
and post the result.
can't figure out a way to delete multiple empty lines but keep single empty lines in a file, file is like this
#cat file
1
2
3
4
5
6
-
What I want is
1
2 (6 Replies)
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 contains blocks of text - each block is a multi-lines text delimited by blank lines eg.
<blank line>
several lines of text
...
pattern found on this line
several more lines of text
...
<blank line>
How do you delete the block of text (including the blank lines) when... (17 Replies)
Hi,
I am using BASH. How can I remove any lines in a text file that are either blank or begin with a # (ie. comments)? Thanks in advance.
Mike (3 Replies)
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)
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)
Hi All,
I have a file.txt which seems like having three lines.
wc -l file.txt
3 file.txt
In fact, once it is open in text editor, this file has four lines where the last line is empty. how can i delete this last empty line of the file.txt? I tried the codes below so far but they... (6 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 Gurus,
Somebody can say me how to delete blank spaces and blank lines in a file unix, please.
Thank you for advanced. (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: systemoper
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unifdef
unifdef(1) General Commands Manual unifdef(1)NAME
unifdef - remove preprocessor lines
SYNOPSIS
sym] sym] sym] sym]] ... [file]
DESCRIPTION
simulates some of the actions of in interpreting C language preprocessor command lines (see cpp(1)). For a valid preprocessor command line
contains as its first character a and one of the following keywords: or The character and its associated keyword must appear on the same
line, but they can be separated by spaces, tabs, and commented text. When appropriate, the portions of code surrounded by and including
the targeted preprocessor directives are removed, and the resultant text is written to the standard output.
Unlike does not insert included files, interpret macros, or strip comment lines. This means, among other things, that and macros occurring
within the input text are not interpreted.
Since is language-independent, it can be used for processing source files for languages other than the C language. For example, can be
used on FORTRAN language source files, provided the C language preprocessor commands are used.
Options
recognizes the following command-line options:
Complement the normal behavior by printing only the rejected lines.
Ignore text delimited by
sym. In other words, text that would otherwise be affected by some action is not touched when found within the context
of a preprocessor command using sym.
Ignore text delimited by
sym.
Replace rejected lines with blank lines
in the text written to the standard output.
Treat the input source as plain text.
C-language comment and quoting constructs are not recognized.
Define symbol
sym.
Cause symbol
sym to be undefined.
RETURN VALUE
The command returns the following exit values:
0 Output is an exact copy of the input.
1 Output is not an exact copy of the input.
2 The command fails. The failure might be due to a premature EOF or to an inappropriate or
EXAMPLES
Assume file contains the following:
The command sequence:
produces the following result in file
WARNINGS
Any symbol name defined in the file must be specified in the command line; otherwise, will ignore the line.
AUTHOR
was developed in the public domain.
SEE ALSO cpp(1).
unifdef(1)