[TAG] 2cent tip

[Neil Youngman]

On Friday 06 June 2008 17:13, 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

The '.*' seems superfluous to me.

grep -v '^#'

> > 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.

Maybe an alias or a shell function if it's just a one liner? 

Neil