rmnl(1) General Commands Manual rmnl(1)
NAME
rmnl - remove extra new-line characters from file
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
removes all blank lines from a file (except at beginning of file as explained below), and is useful for removing excess white space from
files for display on a CRT terminal. Groups of two or more successive
(new-line) characters are reduced to a single
character,
effectively eliminating all blank lines in the file that one or more blank lines at the beginning of a file remain as a single blank line.
To remove redundant blank lines rather than all blank lines, use ssp(1).
To remove all blank lines from a file including beginning of file, use piped to or piped to
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
International Code Set Support
Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.
SEE ALSO
man(1), ssp(1).
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