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ricardodacosta
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I show you mine, you show me yours: What is your favorite regex to use?

I troubleshoot botched configs very often and I hate seeing the annotations (comment lines), they distract from the main lines in a configuration file, and makes it harder to find the erronous line.

I use this:

 

grep '^[^#]' /path/to/file

or

 

grep -vE ‘^\s*(#|$)’ /path/to/file

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kaiser
Flight Engineer
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Looking at your reply , I read back the whole post and figured out that I did not read the post properly before.

My reply was there just after reading some of the grep command lol.

My mistake  

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Chetan_Tiwary_
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@kaiser np at all !!  :xD 

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