[Chicago-talk] Replacing consecutive newlines with a single newline
Randal L. Schwartz
merlyn at stonehenge.com
Thu Sep 25 18:31:20 PDT 2008
>>>>> "Vijay" == Vijay Kumar <vjcang at gmail.com> writes:
Vijay> Not sure why it is not doing it for newline character. May be it is
Vijay> very stupid mistake.
Because $_ contains a single newline character, always.
Perhaps you want to simply delete any entirely blank lines..
.
perl -ne 'print if /\S/'
Or even simpler:
grep .
(That's grep, and a single dot.)
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