Re: How to remove multiple newlines

Toen wij *Dallman* Ross kietelden, kwam er dit uit:
> > > *David* W. Tamkin:
> > > > sed '/./,/^$/!d'
>   sed -n '/./,/^$/p'

See also sed1line.txt:
   http://sed.sourceforge.net/sed1line.txt
   http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/sed/sed1line.txt


>  # delete all CONSECUTIVE blank lines from file except the first; also
>  # deletes all blank lines from top and end of file (emulates "cat -s")
>
>  sed '/./,/^$/!d'          # method 1, allows 0 blanks at top, 1 at EOF
>
>  sed '/^$/N;/\n$/D'        # method 2, allows 1 blank at top, 0 at EOF
-- 
Grtz, Ruud

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