Hi, On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 12:25:03PM +0530, venu wrote:
> if in a file I have say 10 lines and some of them are blank lines ,how do i > remove the blank lines ? grep -v ^$ <filename> This gets you all lines with "something" between the line's beginning (^) and its end ($). Or rather "without nothing" between beginning and end (-v is grep's negation option). So long -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the "Plug" almost always works. ***