Thread: Deleting whitespace from otherwise blank lines
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Old 6th January 2013
Mike-Sanders Mike-Sanders is offline
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Yet another, using the [:space:] POSIX character class:

Code:
sed 's/^[[:space:]]*$//g' file.in > file.out
[:space:] (whitespace) = [ \t\r\n\v\f]
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Last edited by Mike-Sanders; 7th January 2013 at 03:58 AM. Reason: fixed really bad typo... (palm/face)
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