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How can I remove empty lines in every file of a directory?

How can I remove empty /blank lines in every txt file of a directory (ideally subdirectories too)?

find . -name '*.txt' -exec ex '+%s/\ / /g' -cwq {} \;

Above code is pulling list of files correctly but i am not sure what regular expression to pass to remove blank lines.

Solution

  • With GNU find and GNU sed:

    find . -name '*.txt' -exec sed -ri '/^\s*$/d' {} \;