skip_leading_empty_lines

#! /bin/sed -nf

# skip_leading_empty_lines - skip leading empty lines of input
# Copyright (C) 2019  Erik Auerswald <auerswal@unix-ag.uni-kl.de>
#
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# start output with first non-empty line
/[^[:space:]]/,$p