blankless

converts whitespace-only lines to empty lines & optionally deletes.

When processing text in unix pipelines, you sometimes want to take lines that consist entirely of whitespace characters and trim them. Sometimes you want to delete them and their 0 length bretheren. Just add this into your pipeline and it’ll take care of that for you.

Usage

USAGE: no direct invocation. just pipe files into this.
       -d delete blank lines

       Ex.: cat foo.txt | blankless
            cat foo.txt | blankless -d

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