xah / xahlee.org (Xah Lee) writes:

> i have a bunch of java files that has spaced-out formatting that i
> want to get rid of. I want to replace two end of line characters by
> one end of line characters. The files in question is unix, and i'm
> also working under unix, so i did:

Have a look at tr and sed.  tr is also a handy tool for fixing Windows
cr/lf madness.

Gregm