[Novalug] need grep help

[Jon LaBadie]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 05:42:18PM -0400, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
> 
> Now that I think of it, perhaps this is best: "^[ \t]*(#|$)" in other words
> 
> "Possible initial whitespace followed by either # or nothing else"

POSIX EREs have adopted some (all?) of perl's \<char> sequences including
"\s" to be whitespace.  If you are sure you will be using POSIX compliant
egrep (including gnu's grep) it could also be:

  alias decomment="egrep -v '^\s*(#|$)'"

Jon
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