hi,
thanks to the all..
i got it now.. 
regards,
manoj

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 08:50:44PM +0530, Manoj Kumar wrote:
> >
> > I have a 10 MB file (text file ) There i have space in lines like
> > after 4 line 3 line spaec or after 4 line 2 line space.
> >
> > I want to remove this line space from complete file.  Can some one
> > suggest how to remove this line space in complete file. (not using dd
> > command).
> 
> If I got you correctly, you wish to remove all duplicate `empty' lines.
> We'll do in in two steps.  First replace all whitespace lines with
> really empty lines:
> 
>       % cat text_file | sed -e 's/^[ ^I]$//g'
> 
> The ^I is a raw TAB character, which in Bash for instance you need to
> enter as Ctrl-V followed by Ctrl-I.
> 
> Then, you can use uniq to suppress the multiple lines in one, as in:
> 
>       % cat text_file | sed -e 's/^[ ^I]$//g' | uniq
> 
> or you can grep -v the empty lines, to remove them completely.
> 
>       % cat text_file | sed -e 's/^[ ^I]$//g' | grep -v '^$'
> 
> [ BTW: none of the two cross-posted lists is not the proper list to ask
>   such questions. ]
> 
> Ciao :)
> 
> - Giorgos Keramidas
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