Re: to remove leading and trailing blank lines

Davide Brini <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.editors.sed.user
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 10:24:43 -0000, "contact2vikas"
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
> I want to remove/delete  leading and trailing blank lines from a file.

Try this:

sed '

/./,$b ok

d

:ok
   
/^\n*$/{
  $d
  N
  b ok
}

' file



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