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[Kenneth E. Lussier]

I apologize. I mis-spoke my intent. I don't actually want to remove
*ALL* of the blank lines, since that would create a single, really long
entry. There has to be one blank line between each entry. Right now, I
have blank lines within the entries. 

It should look like this:

dn: uid=joe at zuken.com, ou=country, ou=contacts, ou=people,
dc=zuken,dc=com
objectclass: top
objectclass: person
objectclass: organizationalPerson
objectclass: inetOrgPerson
givenName: Joe
sn: Shmoe
cn: Joe Shmoe
mail: joe at zuken.com
telephoneNumber: 555-555-1212

But currently, it looks like this:

dn: uid=joe at zuken.com, ou=country, ou=contacts, ou=people,
dc=zuken,dc=com
objectclass: top
objectclass: person
objectclass: organizationalPerson
objectclass: inetOrgPerson

givenName: Joe
sn: Shmoe
cn: Joe Shmoe
mail: joe at zuken.com

telephoneNumber: 555-555-1212


I need to remove the blank lines before "givenName" and
"telephoneNumber".

Thanks,
Kenny

On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 11:05, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> 
> "Kenneth E. Lussier" <ken.lussier at zuken.com> writes:
> 
> > What I need to do is remove all of the blank lines (or, more
> > specifically, all of the lines that have no text on them).
> 
> This should do the trick:
> 
>         grep -v '^[ \t]*$'
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --kevin
> -- 
> Kevin D. Clark / Cetacean Networks / Portsmouth, N.H. (USA)
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> 
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