On Saturday, Jul 12th 2003 at 13:34 +0100, quoth Alan Peery:
=>Leonard Miller wrote:
=>
=>>I have another file with blank lines - no space or tabs, just
=>>carriage returns.
=>>Can I use that same line to remove those blank lines?
=>>
=>>
=>Use
=>
=>cat file | grep -v ^\$
=>
=>This will keep only those lines NOT matching "^\$", a line where there
=>is nothing between the logical beginning and end of the line. If you
=>want to find lines that only have the letter q on them,
=>
=>cat fred | grep ^q\$
=>
=>would do the trick.
=>
=>Alan
I'm just curious. This is some sort of psychiatric deficiency or
something. Why do *so* many people insist on
cat fn | whatever
when you can just say whatever < fn
After all, either 1 + 1 = 2
or else
Sigma{1..infinity}( 1/n ) + Sigma{1..infinity}( 1/n ) = 2
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