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Old 02-26-2011
Plz Help-how to avoid blank next line
Hi,
I want to pick the latest file name and save it in a file. later i'll be insert this file name in a oracle table.But i m getting a strange issue. while putting the file name to a file, some extra blank line also coming to that file.i m using cmd....
Code:
ls -t *_xxx_*.dat head - 1 > yyy.csv

In yyy.csv file , i m getting the latest file name as well as blank next line.
Can anybody plz help me to remove/avoid this line?

Thanks in Advance
Last edited by Franklin52; 02-26-2011 at 05:13 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags, thank you
# 2  
Old 02-26-2011
That code couldn't possibly work. There's not even a pipe in it anywhere, and the arguments to 'head' are wrong. Please post what you actually did, copy-paste if necessary.
# 3  
Old 02-26-2011
ls -t *_xxx_*.dat | head -1 >yyy.csv
# 4  
Old 02-26-2011
After posting the actual script, please post the output from this enquiry which is designed to make line terminators visible.
Code:
sed -n l yyy.csv

# 5  
Old 02-27-2011
that's not possible.
show us.

is windows involved anywhere in the line?
# 6  
Old 02-27-2011
Code:
grep -v "^$"

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