Re: Blank lines not being squeezed

From: Fred Ma (fma_at_doe.carleton.ca)
Date: 03/26/04

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    Date: 26 Mar 2004 04:40:23 GMT

    "Chris F.A. Johnson" wrote:
    >
    > On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 at 04:03 GMT, Fred Ma wrote:
    > >
    > > I was using various methods to turn a few man pages
    > > into compact text pages. In bash notation:
    > >
    > > man man | PAGER -s | col -bx >| TextFile.txt
    >
    > man man | col -bx | tr -s '\n' >| TextFile.txt
    >
    > --
    > Chris F.A. Johnson http://cfaj.freeshell.org/shell
    > ===================================================================
    > My code (if any) in this post is copyright 2004, Chris F.A. Johnson
    > and may be copied under the terms of the GNU General Public License

    Hi, Chris,

    You seem to be answering alot of my questions.
    Thanks for pointing out the tr command. I wonder,
    though, why "more" or "less" would not behave in
    the way that I expected when its output is piped
    or redirected? They do a nice job otherwise,
    because the single blank line they leave behind
    helps to space things out a bit.

    Fred

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