ssp(1)

DESCRIPTION

ssp (single-space) removes redundant blank lines from the standard input and sends the result to the standard output. All blank lines at the beginning of a file are removed, and all multiple blank lines elsewhere in the file (including end-of-file) are reduced to a single blank line.

ssp is typically used in pipelines such as

ssp is equivalent to the 4.2BSD cat -s command.

To remove all blank lines from a file except at beginning of file, use rmnl (see rmnl(1)). To remove all blank lines from a file including beginning of file, use rmnl piped to ssp, or ssp piped to rmnl.

SEE ALSO

cat(1), rmnl(1).