Jan 172010
Remove comments (#) and empty lines in a file
Answer:
To quickly remove comments (#) and empty lines in a file, with the help of egrep
# egrep -v '^[ \t]*#|^$' text.txt
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Remove comments (#) and empty lines in a file
Answer:
To quickly remove comments (#) and empty lines in a file, with the help of egrep
# egrep -v '^[ \t]*#|^$' text.txt
