Skip blank lines 1

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Hi,
i have a file with some blank lines.
I want to create a new file without the blank lines.
How can i do?
I'm using this command
awk -f script.awk file1.txt > file2.txt

where script.awk is:
BEGIN {
if ( $0 =! "" ) print $0
}

Syntax Error The source line 2.
The error context is
BEGIN >>>
<<<
awk: 0602-500 Quitting The source line is 2

Please help.
Thanks

 

[sbix]

A blank line has a NF = 0, because it's not &quot;tokenizable&quot;, so try something like:
cat your_file|awk '( NF > 0 ) { print $0 }'

 

[aigles]

The BEGIN pattern is carried out before the first file is read, so you can't use $0 in its code.

Jean Pierre.

 

[PHV]

The awk way:

awk 'NF' /path/to/file

The sed way:

sed '/^[  ]*$/d' /path/to/file

(Note: inside square brackets are a space and a tab)

Hope This Help, PH.
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