cat --help cat -s temp > temp1
This will reduce multiple blank lines to 1 blank line, see the other responses if you want that line gone too. If you have a long file with a page of blank space, cat -s README would fix that for you. On 10-Aug-99 venu wrote: > hi all shell scripters ! > > if in a file I have say 10 lines and some of them are blank lines ,how do i > remove the blank lines ? -------------- Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim ICQ: 23284586
