[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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