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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
Which option is used to remove blank lines in VI (AIX). ?
Regards,
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a text file which has blank lines. I want them to be removed before upload it to DB using SQL *Loader. Below is the command line, i use to remove blank lines.
sed '/^ *$/d' /loc/test.txt
If i use the below command to replace the file after removing the blank lines, it replace the... (6 Replies)
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3. UNIX and Linux Applications
When I 'vi' my test file I see some blank lines. However once I do :set list to display hidden characters, I see the empty lines literally like this:
^I$
How do I remove them? I cannot find a regex to match them. (3 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am facing a problem related to removing blank lines from a text document.
Input
Error 17-05-2011 11:01:15 VisualSVN Server 2.1 1001
The following information was included with the event:
line3
line4
Error 17-05-2011 11:00:25 VisualSVN Server 2.1 ... (13 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm not a expert in shell programming, so i've come here to take help from u gurus.
I'm trying to tailor a csv file that i got to make it work for the LOAD FROM command.
I've a datatable csv of the below format -
--in file format
xx,xx,xx ,xx , , , , ,,xx,
xxxx,, ,, xxx,... (11 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
I really hope someone can help me with this. I have several php files from a forum that I run, that now for some reason have blank lines after every line. Is there an easy way to make a script that does the following:
* If there are consecutive blank lines, delete all of them except one.
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7. 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.
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Guys,
I have been trying to remove blank lines from a file with no success. I tried using all the following options on the file:
tr -s '\n' < abc.txt
grep -v "^$" abc.txt
sed '/^$/d' abc.txt
sed '/./!d' abc.txt
awk '/./' abc.txt
The file is a text file. (11 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have joined 2 files. Join command worked fine.
but the result showing extra blank lines. I tried to remove blank spaces by using awk (-- -42 RS= ORS="\n\n" file.txt) and sed (sed '/^ *$/d' file.txt)commands but didn't remove any
Any suggestions plz:D
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
¿How can i remove blank lines between all lines in a long text file?
Example
WrongFile.txt :
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
CorrectFile.txt :
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Thanks in advance
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