Shell command remove empty lines in a text file

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Prabhu Balakrishnan
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You can remove empty lines on a fly using “sed” in  a shell.  This is how

sed '/^$/d' input.txt > output.txt

Input:

and
by
but

 

Output:

and
 by
 but

 

 

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Prabhu Balakrishnan

Founder of Corpocrat Magazine. He has 15+ years experience in computers, finance, banking, insurance and citizenship consulting. Expert in Linux servers, Machine learning and Crypto. He lives in Budapest, Hungary.