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Author: JD Austin
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Subject: Re: way to cat a file with all lines except commented ones
Quoting plug <>:

> grep "^#" -v file_name
I stand corrected, thats absolutely correct!
the ^ is a 'regular expression'

^ means beginning of line
% means end of line

JD
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