Look into using sed. It was made for that kind of thing.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 9:56 AM
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> Hey all,
>
> I am looking for some commands like ( grep, egrep, sed etc) to do the
> following on a Unix box.
>
> 1. Command to take out all the blank line from a text file. The blank line
> may include tabs and whitespaces.
> 2. Command to take out the trailing and starting blanks and tabs from the
> each line of the text file.
> 3. Command for the above two tasks combined.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Dharminder Kumar
>
>
>
>
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