Package: moreutils
Version: 0.18
Severity: wishlist
An easy problem that needs a tool: I've just been reading various
message boards and usenet threads about how to set up 'Freenx', (O the
pain!), and what I noticed was that there were an awful lot of config
files dumped by confused users, and most 'em were comments. So much
useless data...
Suggest a 'nocomment' util would be useful, even though at first glance
it might seem too trivial to bother with.
It would work like this function:
nocomment() { grep -v -e '^#.*$\|^$' $1 ; }
...but allow for other whitespace, and take stdio. Maybe have an option
to include "vicinity comments" -- that is, show the preceding or nearby
comments for any line that isn't a comment. It might be made
language aware, for scripting languages with different comment syntax.
Why it'd be useful, if used:
wc -l < /etc/ssh/ssh_config ; nocomment /etc/ssh/ssh_config | wc -l
45
3
Hope this helps...
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