[Chicago-talk] removing blank lined header

[Leland Johnson]

What are you trying to just remove blank lines? Then this would be the best:
perl -n -e 'print unless /^$/'
or, editing in place...
perl -n -i -e 'print unless /^$/'

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:55:28 -0500, andy_bach at wiwb.uscourts.gov
<andy_bach at wiwb.uscourts.gov> wrote:
> This works:
> perl -ne 'print unless 1 .. /\w/ and ! /\w/ ' /tmp/dp.out
> 
> so shouldn't this (it doesn't):
> perl -ne 'print if 1 .. /\w/ or  /\w/ '
> 
> oops.
> perl -ne 'print if ! 1 .. /\w/ or  /\w/ '
> 
> never mind - unless anybody has a less logical method.
> 
> a
> 
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