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From: weimer@garden.kodak.COM (Gary Weimer (588-0953))
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Subject: Re: Global Empty Line Removal in vi?
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.150144.15282@ssd.kodak.com>
Date: 24 Jan 91 15:01:44 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.064310.8077@midway.uchicago.edu> <chris.664709285@budgie>
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In article <chris.664709285@budgie>, chris@bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au (chris
mcdonald) writes:
|> In <1991Jan24.064310.8077@midway.uchicago.edu>
zi0h@quads.uchicago.edu (W. Ishii) writes:
|> 
|> >Hello there!  As a vi novice (maybe a stronger term is called
for--vi idiot,
|> >probably), I've been stuck for about a week now trying to figure out how to
|> >globally remove multiple blank lines from text.
|> 
|> Filter the whole file (with !<line count>! ) through cat -s

Since he declared himself a "vi idiot," perhaps we should be a little
more explicit:

1G!Gcat -s

1G	goes to the beginning of the file,
!G	pipes from current line (the first one in this case) to end of file
cat -s	removes extra blank lines

Gary Weimer