Re: TextEdit, delete all blank lines
Re: TextEdit, delete all blank lines
- Subject: Re: TextEdit, delete all blank lines
- From: "Sutapalli Satyanarayana" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 21:08:14 -0600
Still the sed script or the Script sent by Axel Luttgens is not working.
>>> John Masters <email@hidden> 5/9/2009 11:07 PM >>>
On 9 May 2009, at 09:52, Axel Luttgens wrote:
Le 9 mai 09 à 08:13, Satyam Satyanarayana a écrit :
Hi, Is there a way using apple script to delete all the blank lines in the "rtf" file created by a TextEdit?
Hello Satyam,
TextEdit's AppleScript implementation is rather basic; so, unless I missed the way to devise a clever whose clause, this seems to be a prototype of the way to go with TextEdit:
tell application "TextEdit"
tell text of document of front window
repeat with P from (count of paragraphs) to 1 by -1
if characters of paragraph P is {linefeed} then delete paragraph P
end repeat
end tell
end tell
I sent a couple of replies to this thread but they seem to have gone direct to Satyam, perhaps as a consequence of hijacking the original thread instead of starting a new one. Anyhow, tested on the command line the following works as a shell script:
"sed '/^ *\\$/d' filename1 > filename2"
so do shell script with the above should work. Has the advantage of preserving the original file. I am only just starting Apple Script but have done some shell scripting on Unix.
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