[Info-vax] Removing blank lines from text files

Steven Schweda sms.antinode at gmail.com
Sat Jul 13 00:30:08 EDT 2019


> It is pure DCL.  It is quick.  It is one line.  It works. 
> Why go elsewhere? 

   Different meaning of "works"?

> Alas, that also finds lines with whitespace but no text.
> My files include many of those.

its $ sea bls.txt ""
a
b
c
   
d
   
its $ 


   Yet more evidence that any thread here with at least 32
"contributions" is no more than a time sink.



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