http://qs1969.pair.com?node_id=132953

Perl one-liner to remove from a text file all lines that contain only whitespace.

Other Ways To Do It (mostly not one-liners) can be found at the thread "How do I remove blank lines from text files?".

Hmmm... personally, I like Ovid's example below better than mine.   It *does* seem more directly recognizable.



perl -i.bak -ne 'print unless /^\s+$/' file.txt