deleting some empty lines with sed

[Bruce Barnett]

In article <1991May02.005009.27947 at vpnet.chi.il.us> dattier at vpnet.chi.il.us (David W. Tamkin) writes:

>The question is how to squeeze all consecutive blank lines to a
>single blank line (which is what cat -s does on a BSD system).
>Removing all blank lines and getting solid blocks of text is not the
>answer!

No one mentioned uniq(1) as a possible solution. Of course it isn't a
good idea if you have identical consecutive non-empty lines....

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