after changing file from unix to dos it is having empty lines..how to handle this

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Published on 2013-09-26T10:11:15Z Indexed on 2013/10/20 15:58 UTC
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After converting file using **unix2dos** command it is having some empty lines. Please help me. How to handle this?

I tried to delete empty lines as follow, but couldn't work.

$ sed '/^$/d' /tmp/data.txt

Hey following examples also didn't work. Pl help

This is source data before using unix2dos.

ID NAME DATE

1 BALA 09/23/2013

2 KRISHH 09/24/2013

3 billy 09/24/2013

After using unix2dos it is coming as

ID NAME DATE

1 BALA 09/23/2013




2 KRISHH 09/24/2013

3 billy 09/24/2013

first and second record there is an empty line coming up..may be in bewteen data also

Thanks

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