On Wed, 19 May 2004
elemint@theriver.com wrote:
> How can I cat a file and recieve all lines excpet ones commented out?
Use grep (or sed or awk) to filter out the lines you do not want.
For example:
grep -v ^# /etc/inetd.conf
(cat is not needed.)
For inetd.conf, I usually do want to get rid of blank lines too:
egrep -v '^$|^#' /etc/inetd.conf
Jeremy C. Reed
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