Linux | How to grep only uncommented contents from any configuration file

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| By Webner

Problem : How to grep only uncommented contents from any configuration file which is big in size, has many comments and blank lines

Solution: This can be achieved by following single command :

# grep -v '^$' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf | grep -v '^ *#' | less

Explanation of command :

^$ : Matches and removes all blank lines
^ *# : Matches and removes all comments that starts with a “#” even with more spaces.
-v : To invert the selection
| less : To pipe the result in scroll format.

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