[surfnschultz]

I have a file with blank lines I want to remove.

I tried s/^$/d but it failed

I also want to take 2 lines and concat them.

123456
123456 this is the title

I want the output to be 123456 123456 this is the title

Any clues?

[tsunam]

:g/^$/d should hopefully work for removing blank lines might be ^*$

I know that ^[ t]*$ does for blanks spaces and tabs if I recall. I'll poke back later with the concat. for that you might look at awk's print though.

[surfnschultz]

I found out hte lines are blank space padding NOT blank new lines.

I tried a few things and mostly messed the file up.

I will try soem rmoe, got any good ideas on how to remove spaces with messing up the other single space between words on the lines I want to preserve?

[Squashman]

Sed One Liners is great web page.

# delete BOTH leading and trailing whitespace from each line
sed 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//'

# delete ALL blank lines from a file (same as "grep '.' ")
sed '/^$/d' # method 1
sed '/./!d' # method 2


http://sed.sourceforge.net/sed1line.txt

I would think that combination should work.