Strip Comments And Whitespace From Config Files
(2019-02-15)
(Source: a Stack Overflow post I can't find right now.)
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
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