Re: Striping comment from configuration files on stdout

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

Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Jean-Louis Crouzet:
> > #cat sip.conf | grep -v "^;"
>
> That's a useless use of cat. :) You may instead just do
>
> grep -v '^;' sip.conf
>
> If you want to strip empty lines and lines beginning with whitespace
> followed by a ';' as well, do
>
> grep -E -v '(^\s*;)|^\s*$'
>
> J.
OK thanks for the tip now running. I still need display line such as

bindport=5060                   ; UDP Port to bind to (SIP standard port 
is 5060)

but not line such as
                                ; Set this to your host name or domain name

but I guess I'm fine with

grep -v '^;' sip.conf

Thanks,
JL