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Old 12-16-2013
If first character doesn't equal '#' and same line contains 'temp', print everything else
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Old 12-16-2013
Code:
awk '!(!/^#/&&/temp/)' file

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Old 12-17-2013
A small logical rearrangement of Yoda's Solution, and it sort of reads a little more clearly for me (comment line OR no temp):

Code:
awk '/^#/||!/temp/' fstab

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