On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 07:09:16PM -0700, 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' $1
>
>
> This is the error message:
>
> sed: -e expression #1, char 7: Invalid range end
I pasted it exactly as shown above and it worked flawlessly on my
OpenBSD system.
> How can I fix this?
I guess installing OpenBSD isn't the answer you're looking for... ;-)
As the other poster suggested, you can try something else. This may be
the same answer as he gave, but I can't be bothered to go look, but I
CAN be bothered to test it (and it works [again, on OpenBSD. try your
own system]):
sed '/^$/d' $1
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