Re: Scripting question
Alan Peery <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.release.psyche |
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Leonard Miller wrote: >I have another file with blank lines - no space or tabs, just >carriage returns. >Can I use that same line to remove those blank lines? > > Use cat file | grep -v ^\$ This will keep only those lines NOT matching "^\$", a line where there is nothing between the logical beginning and end of the line. If you want to find lines that only have the letter q on them, cat fred | grep ^q\$ would do the trick. Alan -- Psyche-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list