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rmb(M)


rmb -- remove extra blank lines from a file

Syntax

/usr/bin/rmb

Description

/usr/bin/rmb acts as a filter to remove any series of blank lines greater than two lines in length. This means that all long sequences of blank lines will be reduced to two blank lines. This is particularly useful for cleaning nroff output of blank lines before putting the output in a file.

Limitations

Because /usr/bin/rmb is a filter, it must be used within a piped command sequence as shown in the following examples:

cat infile | /usr/bin/rmb > outfile

nroff infile | /usr/bin/rmb > outfile

It cannot be used in the form /usr/bin/rmb filename.

See also

man(C)

Standards conformance

rmb is not part of any currently supported standard; it is an extension of AT&T System V provided by The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
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