Re: way to cat a file with all lines except commented ones

Quoting JD Austin <jd@twingeckos.com>:

> Quoting plug <plug@trouble-makers.com>:
>
> > grep "^#" -v file_name
> I stand corrected, thats absolutely correct!
> the ^ is a 'regular expression'
>
> ^ means beginning of line
> % means end of line
$ means end of line not %

(doh! some funky editor I've been using uses % instead).

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