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Re: removing extra empty lines: msg#00059

Subject: Re: removing extra empty lines
>>>>> "AP" == Aristoteles Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@xxxxxx> writes:

  AP> * Smylers <Smylers@xxxxxxxxxxx> [2002-09-30 14:19]:
  >> #! /usr/bin/perl -00p
  >> __END__

  AP> You also don't need to write a script for that:

  AP> $ perl -00pe1 filename

  AP> would do. However, it doesn't fulfill the spec of regarding
  AP> lines with only whitespace as empty.

untested but looks ok:

perl -0777pe 's/^\s*\n/\n/m' file

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