Sometimes I need to remove blank lines from a specific file. I usually do it with the two following commands:
$ grep -v "^$" file
or
$ sed '/^$/d' file
Obviously, if you want to save the output you should redirect it to another file, for example:
$ sed '/^$/d' file1 > file2
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