Re: Grep'ping on Unix without perl-compatible gnu grep

perl -ne 'print if !/^#/ and /foo/' /tmp/foo.txt
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is that what you want? Or using the regex for the above post

perl -ne 'print if /^[^#]*foo/' /tmp/foo.txt
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Re^2: Grep'ping on Unix without perl-compatible gnu grep - can you do it better? by Tommy (Chaplain) on Feb 01, 2013 at 02:43 UTC
Very nice...except you still have to account for potential preceeding whitespace before the hashmark `/^[[:space:]]{0,}#/` Tommy A mistake can be valuable or costly, depending on how faithfully you pursue correction	[reply] [d/l]