begin quoting Ralph Shumaker as of Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:57:34PM -0800: > SJS wrote: > >begin quoting Brad Beyenhof as of Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 07:07:44AM -0800: > > > >> I prefer to do such a > >>step with "grep ." to return all lines that contain non-whitespace > >>characters. > > > >Well, . matches spaces and tabs, so to be pedantic, that's not entirely > >true. :) > > > >But there's nothing between ^ and $ to catch the . so it works just > >fine. Better would be to use a g/re/d with an re of "^$". . . > > I totally followed all of that *until* "g/re/d". What is that?
Remember where "grep" comes from? "g/re/p" -> _g_lobally search for _r_egular _e_xpression and _p_rint Well, "d" instead of "p" means "delete"; thus, g/re/d -- I strive to be obscure And hey! I succeed! Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
