Remove empty lines from files (sed)

Quick example on removing blank lines from a file for future reference:

# cat testfile.txt
line1
line2

line3
line4


line5
line6

# sed '/^$/d' -i testfile.txt
# cat testfile.txt
line1
line2
line3
line4
line5
line6

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