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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:15:40 +0200
From: Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@easyconnect.fr>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] striping blank lines (was: stripping out the DO
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On 2007/10/22, Peter Volkov <pva@gentoo.org> wrote:

>=20
> =D0=92 =D0=9F=D0=BD=D0=B4, 22/10/2007 =D0=B2 19:21 +0200, Elias Probst =
=D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82:
> > To delete empty lines with sed, just do a
> > sed '/^$/d'
> > I hope that's what you're looking for.
>=20
> No. awk command in the previous mail substituted 2 or more empty lines
> with exactly one empty line. Your command makes mail less readable.
>=20

One of this two commands should do the trick (depending whether you're
after empty lines or blank lines):=20
    '/./,/^$/!d'
 or '/[^[:space:]]/,/^[[:space:]]*$/!d'

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