Linux : Shell Remove Empty Lines

Many time we face situations where we have many empty lines in a file or script. Then how can we delete only those empty lines & make the file compact?

I tried following steps & they worked like charm. 
for deleting all empty lines from the file input.txt, run the following command:

sed command
    
                sed '/^$/d' input.txt > output.txt
        OR
                sed -i '/^$/d' input.txt

awk command

                awk 'NF > 0' input.txt > output.txt