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Old 08-22-2005
sysera sysera is offline
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ygor
Try...
Code:
$ cat file1
#line1
  #line2
line#3
line4

$ sed '/^ *#/d;s/#.*//' file1
line
line4
After some testing I went with this method. Thanks to both of you.