remove empty lines

[BIS]

Hallo All,

I have a small awk script rewriting a file. I would love to remove all empty lines. If I "cat -A filename" it looks like this:

some text
some more text
$
$
$
yet more text
$


How do I remove the empty lines?

I tried:
/^$/ ; $0 = ""
print; next }

...in my script but that didn't work

 

[PHV]

awk 'NF' filename

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[BIS]

Hallo PHV,

Thanks for your input. I am actually calling the awk script with an 'awk -f' statment, how would I implement above solution there?

Here is a snippet to maybe better explain:


# Set field-separator.
BEGIN { FS = " *: *" }
# Remove trailing spaces.
{ sub(/[ \t]+$/, "") }
#
/^Address/ { pr(); $0 = "<address>"$2"</address>"
print; next}
#
#
/^City/ { pr(); $0 = "<city>"$2"</city>"
print; next}
#
#
/^Postal Code/ { pr(); $0 = "<zip>"$2"</zip>"
print; next}

 

[PHV]

...
BEGIN { FS = " *: *" }
!NF{next}
...

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886