Want to make that httpd.conf look clean and tidy? Have a file that contains a lot of blank lines or comments that you don’t want? Here’s a quick trick to remove all the extra cruft.<\/p>\n
Say I have a file called config.conf. This file looks like this: # Here is a sample comment. Note the blank lines.<\/p>\n $config=\/etc\/blah # Here is some more sample comments. Now we run egrep on the file to remove the commented and blank lines:<\/p>\n If you want to save this output to a file just use a simple redirect:<\/p>\n UPDATE: If you’re using vi you can use the following commands to achieve the same thing.<\/p>\n Remove blank lines: Remove commented lines: Of course there are other ways to skin this cat using sed\/awk etc but the above two commands have proven to be quick and easy for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Want to make that httpd.conf look clean and tidy? Have a file that contains a lot of blank lines or comments that you don’t want? Here’s a quick trick to remove all the extra cruft. Say I have a file called config.conf. This file looks like this: -bash2.05b cswanson@helios ~ % cat config.conf # Sample … <\/p>\n
\n-bash2.05b cswanson@helios ~ % cat config.conf
\n# Sample config file!<\/p>\n
\necho $config $1 <\/p>\n
\n<\/code><\/p>\n-bash2.05b cswanson@helios ~ % egrep -v '^$|^#' config.conf
\n$config=\/etc\/blah
\necho $config $1
\n-bash2.05b cswanson@helios ~ %
\n<\/code><\/p>\n-bash2.05b cswanson@helios ~ % egrep -v '^$|^#' config.conf > config.conf-new
\n-bash2.05b cswanson@helios ~ % cat config.conf-new
\n$config=\/etc\/blah
\necho $config $1
\n-bash2.05b cswanson@helios ~ %
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
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