On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 09:37:02AM +1000, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was 
heard to say:
> this started out as a grep quetion
> 
> trying to look at a file with out the comments in it
> 
> i tried grep -v '^\s*;'  ; is the comment delimiter.
> 
> but this left me with lots of blank lines.

  Have you tried this?

    egrep -v '\s*(;|$)'

  Seems a lot easier than writing hairy Perl code (but I repeat myself).

  Daniel


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