Commands by geekboxjockey (1)
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A short, *easy-er* to remember command for stripping whitespace and comments from a config file, (or any file for that matter). Remember regex as: slash, space, star. pound, slash, bar. pointy-hat, dollar. (or "caret, dollar" if you must) :-P
2grep -v "\ *#\|^$" /etc/path/to.config
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