Re: way to cat a file with all lines except commented ones

On Wed, 19 May 2004 elemint@theriver.com wrote:

> How can I cat a file and recieve all lines excpet ones commented out?

Use grep (or sed or awk) to filter out the lines you do not want.

For example:

grep -v ^# /etc/inetd.conf

(cat is not needed.)

For inetd.conf, I usually do want to get rid of blank lines too:

egrep -v '^$|^#' /etc/inetd.conf

Jeremy C. Reed

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