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On Wed 15 Nov 09:17, Jack Stone wrote:
> Here I come with another easy one for most on the list -- except for me.
> 
> I have 12,000 plus lines that have an empty line in between each real line, 
> like so:
[...]

grep -v '^$'


Cheers,
       Nick.
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