On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 07:18:48AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > Not an earth-shattering problem. I try to remove all those comments > from various config files before emailing them to wherever. I currently > chain some greps > > grep -v '^\ *#' some.conf | grep -v '^\ $' > condensed.file > > How would you combine these regexp's to remove a commented line (even if > indented) and a blank line? My various permutations and combinations > have resulted in errors.
You'll want something like this: grep -v '^\( *#\| $\)' some.conf > condensed.file or: egrep -v '^( *#| $)' some.conf > condensed.file The spaces don't need to be escaped in either case; (|) need to be escaped for basic grep but not for egrep. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
