Not to flog a dead horse, but personally I use:
sed "s/[:blank:]*#.*$//" yourfile.cfg
This will remove comments, even if they are combined on a line with data.
Winston
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Rousskov [mailto:rousskov@measurement-factory.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 11:59
To: Dave Raven
Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Mailing Etiquette (was: newbie config help)
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Dave Raven wrote:
> If you are going to send your config file, please
> grep -v "#" yourconfigfile.conf
grep -v '^#' yourconfigfile.conf
In case a comment follows an enabled option. A more elaborate pattern
'^(#|$)' can be used with egrep to filter comments and empty lines.
Alex.
Alex.
Received on Thu Dec 13 2001 - 13:25:16 MST
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