hpux man page for ssp

ssp(1)							      General Commands Manual							    ssp(1)

NAME
       ssp - remove multiple line-feeds from output

SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
       (single-space)  removes	redundant blank lines from the standard input and sends the result to the standard output.  All blank lines at the
       beginning of a file are removed, and all multiple blank lines elsewhere in the file (including end-of-file) are reduced to a  single  blank
       line.

       is typically used in pipelines such as

       is equivalent to the 4.2BSD command.

       To  remove  all	blank  lines  from a file except at beginning of file, use (see rmnl(1)).  To remove all blank lines from a file including
       beginning of file, use piped to or piped to

SEE ALSO
       cat(1), rmnl(1).

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