Re: regexp---remove comments---simplification

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:50:31PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> 
> You'll want something like this:
> 
>   grep -v '^\( *#\| $\)' some.conf > condensed.file
> 
> or:
> 
>   egrep -v '^( *#| $)' some.conf > condensed.file

And what would that do with a line like this?

some valid stuff # comment

As I understand it your solution would delete that line also.

Regards.
Johann     
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