[TAG] 2cent tip

[Thomas Bonham]

Joey Prestia wrote:
> 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.
>
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> [joey at xen ~]$ cat /bin/clean
> #!/bin/bash
> cd $PWD
> grep -v '\#'  $1 |  sed /'^$'/d  >  $1.clean
>
>   
I put my perl scirpts in /usr/local/bin and then add that to my path on 
the mac and then I can run them from any where I would like to.

Thomas