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How to remove blank lines from a file using shell script or unix command?

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How to remove blank lines from a file using shell script or unix command?
posted Jun 8, 2015 by Amit Kumar Pandey

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Best answer

Unix Command:
$ grep -v '^$' File_Name > Temp_File | mv Temp_File File_Name

1) By grep option you can search the pattern of blank lines, i.e. '^$'
2) by -v option is takes a negation of the patter which you are searching by grep command.

$ grep -v '^$' File_Name > Temp_File

So, by above command you are identifying Non-Duplicate lines from your file and writing it to a Temp_File.

After that by piping command you are moving the data from your Temp_File to your Original File and hence your output would be achieved.

If you like my answer please vote on me....thanks...

Hope it helps you....
Arif

answer Jul 28, 2015 by Arif Shaikh
Wonderful my +1 :)
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You can use any one of the following utility to delete all empty lines from text file:

[a] sed command

[b] awk command

[c] perl command
Syntax

The syntax is:

command input.txt > output.txt

command [option] input.txt > output.txt



sed '...' input.txt > output.txt

## Gnu/sed
sed -i '...' input.txt

awk '...' input.txt > output.txt

sed command examples

Type the following sed command to delete all empty files:

sed '/^$/d' input.txt > output.txt
cat output.txt

OR

sed -i '/^$/d' input.txt
cat input.txt

awk command examples

Type the following awk command to delete all empty files:

awk 'NF > 0' input.txt > output.txt
cat output.txt

perl command examples

Type the following perl one liner to delete all empty files and save orignal file as input.txt.backup:

perl -i.backup -n -e "print if /\S/" input.txt

Verify updated files, type:

cat input.txt
cat input.txt.backup

answer Jun 11, 2015 by Manikandan J
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