Sean's said a lot of the things I wanted to, such as dropping the
trailing .* from the condition, but here are some more:
Probably what you're looking for is:
sed -e '/^$/d'
That would remove all blank lines. Try
sed '/./,/^$/!d'
and be sure to escape the exclamation point if you're using a csh-type
shell. It will keep one trailing blank line, but that's a good idea.
:0:
* ^Subject:.*todo
| formail -I "" | sed -e '/^[ ]*$/d' >> $HOME/todo
Wasteful to run formail there as a way to get rid of the head (and yet,
to keep the unwanted blank line at the neck); just use the `b' flag to
feed only the body to the action:
:0b:
* ^Subject:.*todo
| sed '/./,/$/!d' >> $HOME/todo # \!d if $SHELL is csh or csh-like
I'll take a six-pack of dark beer. MacTarnahan's Black Watch will do.
Did the OP offer beer? I don't drink, so such things don't stick in my
mind.
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