Re: regex question

["Owen Townend" <owen.townend@gmail.com>]

On 13/04/2008, Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au> wrote:

this started out as a grep quetion

trying to look at a file with out the comments in it

i tried grep -v '^\s*;'  ; is the comment delimiter.

but this left me with lots of blank lines.

Hey,
  Try this:
`sed -e 's:;.*::' -e ':^$:d' abc.ccp`
  It removes everything from ';' to the end of the line and removes empty lines.

  There's a great sed tutorial site here: http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html

cheers,
Owen.