deleting some empty lines with sed

[Randal L. Schwartz]

In article <1991Apr27.143519.26256 at daimi.aau.dk>, datpete at daimi (Peter Andersen) writes:
| Does anyone have a way of doing this, perhaps using something
| else but sed. I'm not a perl-guru, but if its possible in perl
| I'd like to hear about that too.

perl -ne 'print unless /\S/ ? ($skip = 0) : $skip++' <in >out

How this works is left as an exercise to the reader. :-)

print "Just another Perl hacker," unless $skip # :-)
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