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== Remove blank lines and comments from a config file ==
Using 'grep' and 'sed' we can strip out comments and blank lines of any file. you can then redirect the output to a file if you so wish. In this example I will use it to remove the comments and blank lines from my apache2.conf file
Using 'grep' and 'sed' we can strip out comments and blank lines of any file. you can then redirect the output to a file if you so wish. In this example I will use it to remove the comments and blank lines from my apache2.conf file



Latest revision as of 10:59, 27 February 2017

Using 'grep' and 'sed' we can strip out comments and blank lines of any file. you can then redirect the output to a file if you so wish. In this example I will use it to remove the comments and blank lines from my apache2.conf file

grep -v "#" /etc/apache2/apache2.conf | sed -e '/^$/d'

If you wish to leave the blank lines then simply omit the sed statement.

Alternatively you can use egrep

egrep -v '(#|^\s*$)'

With both options you can of course redirect output to a new file. The default is stdout