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From: heroux@cemmva.cem.msu.edu (Brett Heroux)
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Subject: Awk global empty line removal
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Date: 28 Jan 91 21:37:53 GMT
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This awk program doesn't print multiple adjacent blank lines, where blank
has the loose definition of being nothing but spaces, tabs and a <CR>.

	NF != 0 { print; last = 0 }
	NF == 0 && last == 0 { print; last = 1 }

You could mail me for invocation help, it's just awk -f programfile file

Brett Heroux                                         heroux@cemvax.cem.msu.edu

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