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Strip Comments And Whitespace From Config Files

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(2019-02-15)

Problem

Wordy config files that are all comments and whitespace. We want to see the actual configuration.

Solution

#  sed -e 's/#.*$//g' -e '/^s*$/d' < FILE

(Source: a Stack Overflow post I can't find right now.)

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