Remove comments and blank lines from files

If you want to remove all the comment lines and the blank lines from a file to see the only active lines, just use sed as below:

sed '/^ *#/d; /^ *$/d'  filename

You can also do it with alternate methods like that:

grep -v ' *#' filename | grep -v '^ *$'

but sed is better.

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