Re: Delete Blank Lines

On 03Mar2006 13:08, Skeer, Jay <jaysk <at> amazon.com> wrote:
| If you don't have the in place option, how about:
| 
| find . -type f -exec sed -n '/^$/!w/var/tmp/tempfile' {} \; -exec mv /var/tmp/tempfile {} \;

Indeed. I have a shell script called bsed here:

	http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/css/bin/bsed

That does essentially that, that I use in preference to the non-portable
"sed -i". You run it pretty much like "sed -i", but it really does edit
in place (sed -i does what your find command does, which replaces the
file with a _different_ file, rather than overwriting; thus "sed -i"
will break hardlinks and permissions etc).

Eg:

	bsed '/^$/d' filenames...
or
	find . -type f -print | xargs bsed '/^$/d'

Cheers,
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