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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 | ||
grep -v "#" /etc/apache2/apache2.conf | sed -e '/^$/d' | grep -v "#" /etc/apache2/apache2.conf | sed -e '/^$/d' | ||
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[[Category:Linux| ]] [[Category:Unix| ]] | [[Category:Linux| ]] [[Category:Unix| ]] | ||
Revision as of 18:57, 15 January 2008
Template:AdWords 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.
