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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Don't forget to thank those who helped you out with kudos!Both will strip your config file of lines beginning with a # and blank lines, but the latter also strips those lines which have spaces then the #.
