HP-UX Reference (11i v1 05/09) - 1 User Commands N-Z (vol 2)

rmnl(1) rmnl(1)

NAME

rmnl - remove extra new-line characters from ﬁle

SYNOPSIS

rmnl

DESCRIPTION

rmnl removes all blank lines from a ﬁle (except at beginning of ﬁle as explained below), and is useful for

removing excess white space from ﬁles for display on a

CRT terminal. Groups of two or more successive \n

(new-line) characters are reduced to a single \n character, effectively eliminating all blank lines in the ﬁle

except that one or more blank lines at the beginning of a ﬁle remain as a single blank line.

To remove redundant blank lines rather than all blank lines, use ssp(1).

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

rmnl piped to ssp,or ssp piped to

rmnl.

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

International Code Set Support

Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.