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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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
anacrontab
ANACRONTAB(5) Anacron Users' Manual ANACRONTAB(5)NAME
/etc/anacrontab - configuration file for anacron
DESCRIPTION
The file /etc/anacrontab describes the jobs controlled by anacron(8). Its lines can be of three kinds: job-description lines, environment
assignments, or empty lines.
Job-description lines are of one of these two forms:
period delay job-identifier command
@period_name delay job-identify command
The period is specified in days, the delay in minutes. The job-identifier can contain any non-blank character, except slashes. It is used
to identify the job in Anacron messages, and as the name for the job's timestamp file. The command can be any shell command. The fields
can be separated by blank spaces or tabs. The period_name can only be set to monthly at the present time. This will ensure jobs are only
run once a month, no matter the number of days in this month, or the previous month.
Environment assignment lines are of the form:
VAR = VALUE
Spaces around VAR are removed. No spaces around VALUE are allowed (unless you want them to be part of the value). The assignment takes
effect from the next line to the end of the file, or to the next assignment of the same variable.
Empty lines are either blank lines, line containing white-space only, or lines with white-space followed by a '#' followed by an arbitrary
comment.
You can continue a line onto the next line by ending it with a ''.
SEE ALSO anacron(8)
The Anacron README file.
AUTHOR
Itai Tzur <itzur@actcom.co.il>
Currently maintained by Pascal Hakim <pasc@(debian.org|redellipse.net)>.
Pascal Hakim 2004-07-11 ANACRONTAB(5)