On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 05:04, Arie Reynaldi Zanahar wrote:

Dear,

I want to grep lines that not commented from a file, Someone said that I can use $sed -e '/^[[:space:]]*#/d;/^[[:space:]]*$/d' file.conf

but I think it's too long, I have use $egrep -v '^#' file.conf Just add |egrep -v '^$' to the end : $egrep -v '^#' file.conf|egrep -v '^$'

but it containt so many blank lines. Is there any suggest what should I use ? Maybe like combining egrep with other script.. As simple as possible :)

regards,

-- Arie Reynaldi Zanahar reyman@reynaldi.com -- -- Raymond Leach Network Support Specialist http://www.knowledgefactory.co.za "lynx -source http://www.rchq.co.za/raymondl.asc | gpg --import" Key fingerprint = 7209 A695 9EE0 E971 A9AD 00EE 8757 EE47 F06F FB28 --

Arie Reynaldi Zanahar wrote:

Dear,

I want to grep lines that not commented from a file, Someone said that I can use $sed -e '/^[[:space:]]*#/d;/^[[:space:]]*$/d' file.conf

but I think it's too long, I have use $egrep -v '^#' file.conf

but it containt so many blank lines. Is there any suggest what should I use ? Maybe like combining egrep with other script.. As simple as possible :)

I've had success with: egrep -v "^#|^$|^ #|^ *#" httpd.conf That strips out empty lines, comment lines that have a # in as the first character, coment lines that have a tab and # for the first two characters and comments that begin with multiple spaces followed by the # character. -- Until later, Geoffrey Registered Linux User #108567 Building secure systems inspite of Microsoft

Dear,

I want to grep lines that not commented from a file, Someone said that I can use $sed -e '/^[[:space:]]*#/d;/^[[:space:]]*$/d' file.conf

but I think it's too long, I have use $egrep -v '^#' file.conf

but it containt so many blank lines. Is there any suggest what should I use ? Maybe like combining egrep with other script.. As simple as possible :)

regards,

-- Arie Reynaldi Zanahar reyman@reynaldi.com -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 22:04, Arie Reynaldi Zanahar wrote: Can we please get this guy unsubscribed. linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)