[wellylug] vi / ex question

[Martin Bähr]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:08:53PM +1300, Grant McLean wrote:
> > How can I delete every blank line in a file?
> :%!grep -v '^$'

heh, that's a funny one considering that the name grep is derived from
the ex command 
g/<re>/p

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