Re: to remove leading and trailing blank lines
prem <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.editors.sed.user |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
The requirement is as follows: ===================================================================== Hello, I want to remove/delete leading and trailing blank lines from a file. Vikas ====================================================================="leading and trailing blank lines" not blank lines. If that is what you want, this shoud resolve: echo -e " ccc\n dddd \neeeee \nfff\n \n\n\n\n" | sed -e '/^ /d' -e '/ $/d' -e '/^ *$/d' From: Alexander Krasnukhin <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Cc: [email protected]; prem <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, July 1, 2013 12:36 PM >Subject: Re: to remove leading and trailing blank lines > > >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] > > > >------------------------------------ > >-- >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]