[TAG] 2cent tip

[Joey Prestia]

Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, 06 Jun 2008, Thomas Bonham wrote:
>> I thought I would sure this little perl script that will remove the 
>> comments out of a configuration file. 
> 
> Why not just the following?
> 
> 	grep -v '^#.*' < input > output
> 
> 
> Kapil.
> --
> 
I take it a step farther and make it executable and put it in the path
of system commands like /bin/ and this way it can be called from anywhere.




[joey at xen ~]$ cat /bin/clean
#!/bin/bash
cd $PWD
grep -v '\#'  $1 |  sed /'^$'/d  >  $1.clean

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