Need to delete lines

[zqadora]

Hello,

I need to delete every empty line in a file. Also, I need to delete the first 10 lines and the last 5 lines in that files regardless if they are empty or not.

Regards,

Ziad

 

[J1mbo]

#! /bin/ksh -x
# Get the number of lines in the file
FILE=data
typeset -i LINES=`cat $FILE | wc -l`
FIVELESS=`expr $LINES - 5`
sed -e "$FIVELESS,${LINES}d" -e '1,10d' -e '/^$/d' data

-jim

 

[Ygor]

awk 'NR>10 && /./ && NR<='$(($(wc -l<file1) - 5))<file1

 

[zqadora]

Hello,

I have tried what you suggested and it works. Thanks for all the replies.

Regards,

Ziad