Rewrite the sed statement to sed 's/  */:/g;/^$/d'

-ravi

On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Jeff Kennedy wrote:

>I'm trying to expire an entire pool.  Here's the path I took....
>
>bpmedialist -p Offsite | sed 's/  */:/g' | tail +6 >
>/tmp/imagelist.offsite
>
>This gets me the colon delimited file with all my media ID's for the
>offsite pool minus the pesky header.  Now my problem is getting rid of
>the blank line between each media ID, anyone know how to do that?  I
>know this is almost purely a scripting question but many of you are
>decent or better scripters, and I fall into the "I know what a script
>looks like.....generally" category.
>
>Once I get that I will work on passing it to bpexpdate with the return
>sequence so it's fully automated.
>
>Thanks.
>