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Remove lines that are all spaces, tabs or empty
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Remove lines that are all spaces, tabs or empty
I have a file in which I need to remove all lines that are: 1) empty 2) contain nothing but tabs, spaces or combination thereof. I've tried awk '/[:space:]/{print}' which did remove lines with all tabs and spaces, but also removed a line with a data value embedded in tabs. I'm open to any...
