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display contents of a file w/o any comments or blank lines

Terminal - display contents of a file w/o any comments or blank lines
egrep '^[^#]' some_file
2009-02-19 17:35:52
User: nottings
Functions: egrep
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grep -v "^#" some_file

It's easier

Comment by n0ky75 221 weeks and 3 days ago

or even

grep -v \# some_file
Comment by wwest4 221 weeks and 3 days ago

er...

grep ^\# some_file
Comment by wwest4 221 weeks and 3 days ago

fok!

grep -v ^\# some_file

jeez.

Comment by wwest4 221 weeks and 3 days ago

awk '!/#/' file

Comment by sil 221 weeks and 3 days ago

For the fun!

sed -n '/^#/!p' some_file
Comment by n0ky75 221 weeks and 3 days ago

none of these deal w/ leading whitespace anyway. better:

awk '!/(\b)?\#/'

...dealing with trailing comments is not really practical, i guess.

Comment by wwest4 221 weeks and 3 days ago

grrrr... I forgot an important piece in the description... my command doesn't display empty lines either. Whereas, things like grep -v "^#" do

Comment by nottings 221 weeks and 3 days ago

@wwest4 seems you're struggling pretty hard. Maybe try testing your command in the shell before committing the comment? Further, what you ended up with doesn't certainly isn't as beautiful as the initial command. Further, '^[^#]' can be used in vim, less, sed, awk, and many programs making it beautiful.

Comment by atoponce 216 weeks and 4 days ago

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