You Asked: How Do You Remove Blank Lines in Linux?
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^$ is a regular expression matching only a blank line, a line start followed by a line end. You can use the -v option with grep to remove the matching empty lines.

How do I remove blank lines in Unix?

The d command in sed can be used to delete the empty lines in a file. Here the ^ specifies the start of the line and $ specifies the end of the line. You can redirect the output of above command and write it into a new file.

How do I remove blank lines in a text file?

Open Notepad++ and the file you want to edit. In the file menu, click Search and then Replace. In the Replace box, in the Find what section, type ^rn (five characters: caret, backslash ‘r’, and backslash ‘n’). Leave the Replace with section blank unless you want to replace a blank line with other text.

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