[plug] perl program to strip blank lines from a file

[James Devenish]

In message <courier.40A86B90.00003CA9 at wasp.net.au>
on Mon, May 17, 2004 at 03:36:47PM +0800, David Buddrige wrote:
> I am tryin to put together a program which will strip blank lines out of a 
> text file.  To this end, I have written the following perl program;

No problem learning Perl but just for the references files, you can
also use one-liners these:

grep -v '^$'
sed '/^$/d'


Note: some 'blank lines' might actually contain whitespace, depending on
the nature of your files.