Re: Striping comment from configuration files on stdout

[Jean-Louis Crouzet <jeanlouis.crouzet@free.fr>]

Kevin Mark wrote:
> 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
Hi Kevin,

thanks for your reply, that's exactly what I was looking for and it 
works like a charm.

Regards,
JL

#cat sip.conf | grep -v "^;"