[Novalug] need grep help

[Kevin Cole]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 19:44, Jay Hart <jhart at kevla.org> wrote:

I like to search config files with the comment lines removed...
>

What I'm really looking for is a grep that will remove all comment lines, or
> lines that are blank.
>

Been there, done that.  So often in fact that I add this alias to my
.bash_aliases wherever I go:

alias decomment='egrep -v "^[[:space:]]*(#.*)?$" '
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