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Re: One-liner removes whitespace-only lines from text file

by FoxtrotUniform (Prior)
on Dec 19, 2001 at 02:21 UTC ( [id://132956]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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  1. or download this
    perl -i.bak -ne 'print if /\S/' file.txt
    
  2. or download this
    perl -i.bak -ne 's/^\s+$//;print' file.txt
    

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