how to fix a unix shell script to work on linux

Josef Lowder joe at actionline.com
Sun Jan 13 13:48:12 MST 2008


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Thanks Matrix Mole (and all other responders).
The scripts you provided worked fine.
'preciate it!

Joe

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On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Matrix Mole wrote
> Josef Lowder wrote:
> | .
> | The following script used to work on my old unix system,
> | to remove blank lines from a text file.  It no longer works
> | on linux, but now it gives an error message (below):
> |
> | sed '/[!-~]/!d' $1
> |
> |
> | This is the error message:
> |
> | sed: -e expression #1, char 7: Invalid range end
> |
> | How can I fix this?
> 
> If we're talking lines that have no content in them whatsoever then the
> following should work:
> 
> sed -e '/^$/d' $1
> 
> If we're talking lines that have at least a space on them but nothing
> else, then I'd think should work:
> 
> sed -e '/^\ *$/d' $1
> 
> I haven't had a chance to test these, but I think that should work (and
> might even work on a unix platform as well as linux).
> 
> Matrix Mole




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