Re: Delete Next Blank Line IFF Current Line is Less than 80 Characters

Note: Tried to post the following a few days ago; trying again:
>
> Does the blank line immediately follow the short line, or then can be other
> lines in between?
>
How about providing examples for both? ;-)

> If it's the former, then this should work:
>
> sed '/.\{80\}/! {
> n
> /^$/d
> }'
>
The above didn't work from inside a bash script:
#!/bin/bash
sed '/.\{80\}/! {
n
/^$/d}' file1.txt | less
Thanks!K.