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

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 stan-

dard 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.

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.