[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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