On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 09:37:02AM +1000, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> 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.
Have you tried this?
egrep -v '\s*(;|$)'
Seems a lot easier than writing hairy Perl code (but I repeat myself).
Daniel
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