[Gllug] Silly little grep question

Richard Cohen richard at vmlinuz.org
Mon Mar 3 02:47:46 UTC 2003


On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Jonathan Harker wrote:

> Okay call me dumb, but the output from
>
> grep -v \# /etc/squid/squid.conf
>
> is great because you get all the options without all the poxy comments, but
> you get all the blank lines. How would I go about removing the blank lines as
> well?

grep -v \# /etc/squid/squid.conf | grep -v ^\$

i.e. also filter out lines where the end of the line immediately follows the
start of the line.

> Luv Jon

Cheers
Richard

-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at linux.co.uk
http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug




More information about the GLLUG mailing list