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Tuesday 06 September 2011
 Number  2075
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Subjects for today
 
1   strip comment lines from a file ? : Voytek" <voytek at sbt dot net dot au>
2  Re:  strip comment lines from a file ? : John Angelico" <talldad at kepl dot com dot au>

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Date:  Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:06:53 +1100
From:  "Voytek" <voytek at sbt dot net dot au>
Subject:   strip comment lines from a file ?

how would I strip all lines starting with '#' from a file, do native OS/2
tools make it 'easy' or do I need like 'sed' ?

what about searching recursively for a string within a file, what to use ?

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Date:  Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:01:24 +1000 (AEST)
From:  "John Angelico" <talldad at kepl dot com dot au>
Subject:  Re:  strip comment lines from a file ?

 On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:06:53 +1100 Voytek wrote: 
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>how would I strip all lines starting with '#' from a file, do native OS/2
>tools make it 'easy' or do I need like 'sed' ?
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>what about searching recursively for a string within a file, what to use ?
>

Looks like a job for REXX!



Best regards
John Angelico
Former OS/2 SIG
talldad at kepl dot com dot au
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