[Chicago-talk] Replacing consecutive newlines with a single newline
Randal L. Schwartz
merlyn at stonehenge.com
Sat Sep 27 00:11:29 PDT 2008
>>>>> "Vijay" == Vijay Kumar <vjcang at gmail.com> writes:
Vijay> perl -0777 -pi -e 's/^SQL>//mg; s/\n{2,}/\n\n/g' inputfile
Vijay> cat inputfile | mailx ....
Why do people use a useless cat?
Why not just:
cat inputfile | cat | cat | cat | cat | mailx ...
it's just about as wasteful?
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