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Old 10-04-2011
MySQL blank space
hi everyone,
i have a problem in unix script , i need to remove line that has blank , not blank line .
example: mahm,,jdggkhsd,ghskj,,fshjkl
can anyone help?
Last edited by radoulov; 10-04-2011 at 05:38 AM.. Reason: Code tags.
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Old 10-04-2011
So in the event that the line matches the pattern ',[:space:]+,' you wish not to display it?

That sounds like a job for grep -v
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Old 10-04-2011
i made grep to search about this lines , how can at the same time delete them?
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Old 10-04-2011
try using grep -v to exclude them then pipe the output to a temp file, now replace your original file with the temp file and there you are, job done.
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Old 10-04-2011
thanks
 
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