[Chicago-talk] Replacing consecutive newlines with a single newline

tiger peng tigerpeng2001 at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 27 05:45:53 PDT 2008



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?

I think they are Perlists from Windows' world, who should read some books about UNIX, such as Learning the UNIX Operating System, UNIX Power Tools, etc
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