On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 08:39:17AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > > I want to look at a config file that uses ; as comments, but I want to > look at everything that is not a commented line > > so I tried grep -v '^\W*;' which sort of works, except it leaves me with > blank lines now, how can I not show the blank lines > adding to this I tried it in perl
perl -nle 'print "[$_]" if ( ! m/^\s*;/)' sip.conf
but it still prints out blank lines where it matches ?
(i realised i used \W instead of \s before)
another question while we are on regex, how do I use [:space:] in grep
and perl ?
Alex
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