How to remove blank lines from above and below from a output

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In Aix when I am running a command to get a status it is showing but there is few lines blank above and few below apart from the actual output line. How to remove while generating the output.

Possible duplicate of [Remove blank lines with grep](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3432555/remove-blank-lines-with-grep) — Artem Barger, Jun 26 '17 at 09:47

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 26 '17 at 09:52

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tr -d '\r' < "$file" > t ; mv t "$file"

answered Jun 26 '17 at 09:52

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 26 '17 at 09:53

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I just used sed to remove lines . I am not dealing with files. I am storing output to a variables. It worked . Thanks for the valuable time

answered Jun 26 '17 at 09:53

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How to remove blank lines from above and below from a output

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