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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I've spent the past hour trying different things and googling for this solution and cannot find the answer. Found variations of this, but not this exact thing.
I have the following text, which is the output from our mainframe. Each field is on a separate line, with a blank line between each... (7 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I tried the following options but was unable to delete blank lines from file
Input file = temp.hash.txt
temp.hash.txt content
90
0
89.56
0
0
57575.4544
56.89 (9 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
cat test.txt
BlankLine
BlankLine
BlankLine
BlankLine
ello
hi
helo
BlankLine
BlankLine
heylo
BlankLine
BlankLine
BlankLine
done
BlankLine
BlankLine
BlankLine (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: TomG
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
Im trying to do the following in sed. I want to delete any blank line at the start of a file until it matches a pattern and then stops. for example:
Input
output:
I have got it to work within a range of two patterns with the following:
sed '/1/,/pattern/{/^]*$/d}'
The... (2 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Consider a file named "testfile"
The contents of file are as below
first line added for test
second line added for test
third line added for test
fourth line added for test
fifth line added for test (5 Replies)
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I am using BASH. How can I remove any lines in a text file that are either blank or begin with a # (ie. comments)? Thanks in advance.
Mike (3 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Sample input (line feed indicated by )
---------------
The red fox jumped
over the brown fence of the
red hous
He then went into the
orchard
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Desired Output
---------------
The red fox jumped over the brown fence of the red house
He then went into the orchard (11 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
hello,
i have tried to remove blank lines from a file using korn shell script file.. it doesn't seem to work!
i tried sed '/^\s*$/d' infile > outfile but that didn't work
i tried sed 's/ *$//;/^$/d' infile > outfile and that didn't work
i tried sed '/^s./d' infile > outfile and that... (6 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a text file with blank lines fullfilled with spaces and others only containing the "Enter" caracter, the \012.
I would like to eliminate all them with the sed command.
Is it possible?
making: sed '/^$/d' <file should delete the blank lines but doesn't work for the lines that only... (2 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
What is the command to count lines in a files, but ignore blank lines and commented lines?
I have a file with 4 sections in it, and I want each section to be counted, not including the blank lines and comments... and then totalled at the end.
Here is an example of what I would like my... (6 Replies)
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