does vi have a search/deletion macro???

[Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl]

In article <5285 at ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> lee at iris.ucdavis.EDU (Peng Lee) writes:
>I have a similar question:  How do you delete a empty line using "sed"
>or "ed" ?  I have try the 'sed -e "/^$/d" filename ', but it doesn't work.

You might want to try single quotes in the sed command, viz:

	sed -e '/^$/d' filename

as double quotes will attempt to expand the $.


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