On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 21:37 -0700, Greg Woods wrote:
On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 23:33 +0000, John Horne wrote:
> ============ (the '=' are not part of the variable)
> abc def
>
> hijk
> xyz
> ============
>
> So in this case what is wanted is:
>
> ============
> hijk
> xyz
> ============
>
> to be shown.
echo "$XX" | sed -e '1,/^$/d'
This will delete lines up to and including the first blank line. The
OP's problem statement isn't very clear, but I think he wants to delete
everything up to and including the last blank line, if any.
poc