On 13/04/2008, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > this started out as a grep quetion > > trying to look at a file with out the comments in it > > i tried grep -v '^\s*;' ; is the comment delimiter. > > but this left me with lots of blank lines. >
Hey, Try this: `sed -e 's:;.*::' -e ':^$:d' abc.ccp` It removes everything from ';' to the end of the line and removes empty lines. There's a great sed tutorial site here: http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html cheers, Owen.
