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[John Abreau]

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"Kenneth E. Lussier" <ken.lussier at zuken.com> writes:

> 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
[snip]

I assume each entry begins with a "dn:" line. So you could remove all 
blank
lines in one pass, and then insert a blank line before each "dn:" line:

    grep -v '^[ \t]*$' | awk '/^dn:/ { print "" } { print }'


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