ssp.1 (2010 09)

ssp(1) ssp(1)

NAME

ssp - remove multiple line-feeds from output

SYNOPSIS

ssp

DESCRIPTION

ssp (single-space) removes redundant blank lines from the standard input and sends the result to the

standard output. All blank lines at the beginning of a ﬁle are removed, and all multiple blank lines else-

where in the ﬁle (including end-of-ﬁle) are reduced to a single blank line.

ssp is typically used in pipelines such as

nroff -ms file1 | ssp

ssp is equivalent to the 4.2BSD cat -s

command.

To remove all blank lines from a ﬁle except at beginning of ﬁle, use

rmnl (see rmnl (1)). To remove all

blank lines from a ﬁle including beginning of ﬁle, use

rmnl piped to ssp,or ssp piped to rmnl.

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ssp(1) ssp(1) NAME ssp - remove multiple line-feeds from output SYNOPSIS ssp DESCRIPTION ssp (single-space) removes redundant blank lines from the standard input and sends the result to the standard output. All blank lines at the beginning of a file are removed, and all multiple blank lines elsewhere in the file (including end-of-file) are reduced to a single blank line. ssp is typically used in pipelines such as nroff -ms file1 | ssp ssp is equivalent to the 4.2BSD cat -s command.
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