Re: to remove leading and trailing blank lines
Alexander Krasnukhin <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.editors.sed.user |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
It won't remove leading and trailing blank lines. $ echo -e "\n\n\ncafebabe\n\n\n" | sed -e '/^ /d' -e '/ $/d' -- Regards, Alexander On Jul 1, 2013, at 7:29 PM, prem wrote: > Try thisecho -e " cccc\n dddddd \neeeeeee \nfffff" | sed -e '/^ /d' -e '/ $/d' > > > From: Davide Brini <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Monday, July 1, 2013 5:38 AM >> Subject: Re: to remove leading and trailing blank lines >> >> >> On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 10:24:43 -0000, "contact2vikas" >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> I want to remove/delete leading and trailing blank lines from a file. >> >> Try this: >> >> sed ' >> >> /./,$b ok >> >> d >> >> :ok >> >> /^\n*$/{ >> $d >> N >> b ok >> } >> >> ' file >> >> >> >> -- >> D. >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> -- >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> >> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > -- > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]