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Old 05-24-2007
matrixmadhan matrixmadhan is offline
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Quote:
#egrep -cv '#|^$' active_servers
this displayed the total but on screen only, not in the file
If you had rather need the output on file, redirect that.

Code:
egrep -cv '#|^$' active_servers > somefilename
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