NAME

ssp − remove multiple line-feeds from output

SYNOPSIS

ssp

DESCRIPTION

ssp (single-space) removes redundant blank lines from the standard input and sends the result to the standard output.  All blank lines at the beginning of a file are removed, and all multiple blank lines elsewhere in the file (including end-of-file) are reduced to a single blank line. 

ssp is typically used in pipelines such as

nroff -ms file1 | ssp

ssp is equivalent to the 4.2BSD cat -s command. 

To remove all blank lines from a file except at beginning of file, use rmnl (see rmnl(1)). To remove all blank lines from a file including beginning of file, use rmnl piped to ssp, or ssp piped to rmnl. 

SEE ALSO

cat(1), rmnl(1). 

Hewlett-Packard Company  —  HP-UX Release 9.0: August 1992