cat file |tr -s "/n" grep -v ^$ file sed -n '/^[^$]/p' file cat file |sed '/^$/d' awk '{if($0 != "")
cat file |tr -s "/n"
grep -v ^$ file
sed -n '/^[^$]/p' file
cat file |sed '/^$/d'
awk '{if($0 != "") print $0}' file
awk '{if(length !=0) print $0}' VM_total.py