Delete empty lines using sed

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You may have spaces or tabs in your “empty” line. Use POSIX classes with sed to remove all lines containing only whitespace:

sed '/^[[:space:]]*$/d'

A shorter version that uses ERE, for example with gnu sed:

sed -r '/^\s*$/d'

(Note that sed does NOT support PCRE.)

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