Re: Help for Unix text file processing

Do it with Perl. If you don't know it, it's time to learn.

This script will do it:

#!/usr/bin/perl -pw  

chomp;
next if /^\s+$/;
$_ =~ s/^\s+(.*)$/$1\n/;

run as my_script file_to_fix.txt > fixed_file.txt

Jared

On Wednesday 06 June 2001 07:55, you wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I am looking for some commands like ( grep, egrep, sed etc) to do the
> > following on a Unix box.
> >
> > 1. Command to take out all the blank line from a text file. The blank
> > line may include tabs and whitespaces.
> > 2. Command to take out the trailing and starting blanks and tabs from the
> > each line of the text file.
> > 3. Command for the above two tasks combined.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Dharminder Kumar
>
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