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From: csr@drutx.ATT.COM (Steve Roush)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: sed script to combine blank lines?
Keywords: sed
Message-ID: <8984@drutx.ATT.COM>
Date: 14 Oct 88 01:18:15 GMT
References: <192@vlsi.ll.mit.edu>
Distribution: comp
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO
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#  strip 1st blank line down to nothing, then print newline
#  s/.*//p  should work, but not on my version
#  append next line, then strip thru newline, finally loop to see if non-blank
#############   NOTE, replace ^L with the real thing

sed  '/^[	 ^L]*$/{
s/.*//
p
:bogus
/^[	 ^L]*$/{
N
s/.*\n//
bbogus
}
}' 

steve roush
AT&T - BTL
Denver
303-538-4860
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