On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 08:56:59AM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 08:39:17AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > >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 > > Try grep -Ev '^(\W*;|$)' great that works, (i changed to \s* instead, also tried the [[:space:]] and it worked)
I don't understand hwy i need to test for ^$, I had thought that once a line test positive for ^\s*; it would be excluded ? > > -- > "Red Rosa now has vanished too" Bertolt Brecht > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- "The idea of putting subliminable messages into ads is ridiculous." - George W. Bush 09/01/2000
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