Optimization: Put grep -v empty task filter inside sed.

No need to spawn off another process for this; we can do this inside the sed command that joins the task numbers with the task text.

todo.sh

@@ -199,10 +199,7 @@ help()
 		    list [TERM...]
 		    ls [TERM...]
 		      Displays all tasks that contain TERM(s) sorted by priority with line
-		      numbers.  Each task must match all TERMs (logical AND); to display
+		      numbers.  If no TERM specified, lists entire todo.txt.
-		      tasks that contain any TERM (logical OR), use
-		      "TERM1\|TERM2\|..." (with quotes), or TERM1\\\|TERM2 (unquoted).
-		      If no TERM specified, lists entire todo.txt.
 
 		    listall [TERM...]
 		    lsa [TERM...]
@@ -218,7 +215,7 @@ help()
 		    lf [SRC [TERM...]]
 		      Displays all the lines in SRC file located in the todo.txt directory,
 		      sorted by priority with line  numbers.  If TERM specified, lists
-		      all lines that contain TERM(s) in SRC file.
+		      all lines that contain TERM in SRC file.
 		      Without any arguments, the names of all text files in the todo.txt
 		      directory are listed.
 
@@ -226,7 +223,7 @@ help()
 		    lsp [PRIORITY] [TERM...]
 		      Displays all tasks prioritized PRIORITY.
 		      If no PRIORITY specified, lists all prioritized tasks.
-		      If TERM specified, lists only prioritized tasks that contain TERM(s).
+		      If TERM specified, lists only prioritized tasks that contain TERM.
 
 		    listproj
 		    lsprj
@@ -778,8 +775,12 @@ _list() {
     fi
     items=$(
         sed = "$src"                                            \
-        | sed "N; s/^/     /; s/ *\(.\{$PADDING,\}\)\n/\1 /"    \
+        | sed '''
-        | grep -v "^[ 0-9]\+ *$"
+            N
+            s/^/     /
+            s/ *\([ 0-9]\{'"$PADDING"',\}\)\n/\1 /
+            /^[ 0-9]\+ *$/d
+         '''
     )
     if [ "${filter_command}" ]; then
         filtered_items=$(echo -n "$items" | eval "${filter_command}")