On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:00:56AM +0100, Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote: > Hi all, > > this is something I saw in the past in this NG but I can't retrieve it > anywhere. I looked for it since a while without any luck. Then I decided to > try here... > > Goal is from bash command to strip command lines from a configuration file > (i.e for asterisk sip.conf) and display the output on sdout or pipe it into > a new file. I would like to keep only used lines... > > Hoping this clear; many thanks in anticipation. > > Regards, > JL Many conf files use the '#' symbol to start comment line, so if a line starts with '#', its a comment. 'grep -v "^#" filename' may be the command to do it. -K -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______|
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