Sublime Text 2: How to delete blank/empty lines

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Nick picture Nick · Aug 17, 2012 · Viewed 221k times · Source

Let's say I had a text file with the following nine lines:

foo

bar

baz

qux

quux

How can I use Sublime Text 2 to remove all four of the blank/empty lines, leaving only five lines?

Answer

Hugo Corrá picture Hugo Corrá · Aug 17, 2012

Select the text

Press:

  • Ctrl + H on PC, or
  • Command + Alt + F on Mac or
  • Click Find->Replace.

Make sure you have selected 'regular expression' by pressing:

  • Alt + R on PC or
  • Command + Alt + R on Mac or
  • Click .* in the Find box.

Find what: ^\n or ^(\r|\n\r?)

Replace With: (nothing, leave in blank).

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