Deleting empty lines from text files (sed)

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0000

The following sed command deletes empty lines (and those with white spaces only) from text files:

sed -e '/^ *$/d' infile.txt > outfile.txt

You have to be careful though: if you copied the textfile from a Macintosh this script maybe won’t work. You first have to convert the Macintosh textfile into a UNIX textfile!

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Deleting empty lines from text files (sed)