Re: Striping comment from configuration files on stdout
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:00:56AM +0100, Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this is something I saw in the past in this NG but I can't retrieve it
> anywhere. I looked for it since a while without any luck. Then I decided to
> try here...
>
> Goal is from bash command to strip command lines from a configuration file
> (i.e for asterisk sip.conf) and display the output on sdout or pipe it into
> a new file. I would like to keep only used lines...
>
> Hoping this clear; many thanks in anticipation.
>
> Regards,
> JL
Many conf files use the '#' symbol to start comment line, so if a line
starts with '#', its a comment. 'grep -v "^#" filename' may be the
command to do it.
-K
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