On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 09:16:59AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > 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 ?
more delving into it
I need something like this
perl -nle 'next if ( /^\s*;/); print if length $_ > 0' sip.conf
I have to check if I have a blank line. I would have thought the next
would read the next line !
>
>
> (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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