NAME
rmnl — remove extra new-line characters from file
DESCRIPTION
rmnl
removes all blank lines from a file
(except at beginning of file as explained below),
and is useful for removing excess white space from files for display on a
CRT
terminal.
Groups of two or more successive \n (new-line) characters
are reduced to a single \n character,
effectively eliminating all blank lines in the file
except
that one or more blank lines at the beginning of a file
remain as a single blank line.
To remove redundant blank lines rather than all blank lines, use
ssp(1).
To remove all blank lines from a file including beginning of file, use
rmnl
piped to
ssp,
or
ssp
piped to
rmnl.
EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
International Code Set Support
Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.
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