Alex Samad wrote: > 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.
Try this: sed 's/[[:space:]]*;.*//' file | less -s The 'less -s' squeezes consecutive blank lines. See also 'more -s' and 'cat --squeeze-blank' (but beware that 'cat -s' on SysV systems means to be silent about missing files). Bob
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