[CentOS] need help: about remove space
Michel van Deventer
michel at van.deventer.cx
Fri Apr 30 14:55:50 UTC 2010
Hi,
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 07:46 -0700, adrian kok wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have big file as below
> and would like to know how many line eg: wc -l file
> but can't figure out how to know
>
> If I type wc -l file, I only get the 1023 but it includes the space
> When I use cat file | tr -d "\r \n". it gives me "adrian alice......"
> I need it as fileB and then wc -l fileB.
>
If those lines between the names are empty lines you might try :
cat bigfile | egrep -v '^$' | wc -l
or if you want the names into a second file :
cat bigfile | egrep -v '^$' > fileB
Regards,
Michel
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