Rough Book

random musings of just another computer nerd

vim: removing blank lines

This always seems to get me and I have to figure it out every time. Sometimes I have files with blank lines and I want to get rid of them. Here is how you do it in vim (one of the many ways, actually). First you want to get rid of whitespaces:

:%s/^\s\+$//

Note: I used a blockquote here because WordPress doesn’t like two forward slashes in the sourcecode tag.

Then, you have to do this:

:%!grep -v  "^$"

Of course, this only works in Linux, BSD, or any of the other Unices.

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April 6, 2010 - Posted by | Nerdy Stuff | , , ,

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  1. Hi,

    Your website is very informative.Keep it up.Good work.

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    Comment by Malayalam Chat | April 8, 2010


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