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ebouchut/Remove comment lines (#) from a file

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Remove comment lines (#) from a file
# Remove comment that spans a whole line (like this one)
# and comments at the end of a line like the following
: echo "Hello" # comment at the end of a line
sed -e 's/#.*$//g' -e '/^[ \t]*$/d' file
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