Remove comments and empty lines from a conf file

grep ^[^#] /etc/file.conf

Some conf file are very long (squid.conf) This command help to read it.

By: longdrink

2010-10-20 12:26:34

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egrep -v "(#|^$)" /etc/file.conf

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I used to use mrton's alternative but this one is much better and makes more sense! thanks!

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ku1899ot · 17 weeks and 6 days ago

What do you think?

Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?

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