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Old 03-08-2006
syntax problem

dear friends,

I have a large size file containg two fields data

like this

*** ****
122 222
***** *****
***** *****
232 233


i have file like this.

i want to remove blank lines from file .

i think awk is servive this problem

i wrote a awk command but the error is coming .

mu command is like this

awk ' $1 != /*/*/*/' file.dat > new

but this command syntax has problem

please anyone correct the syntax and let me know.
# 2  
Old 03-08-2006
a workaround solution


Quote:
awk -F '*' '{print $1}' f3.txt|awk NF > new
where f3.txt is input file
tell me if you were looking for somthing else

Gaurav
# 3  
Old 03-08-2006
sed '/^$/d' $filename

John Arackal
# 4  
Old 03-08-2006
Code:
nawk 'NF' myFile

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