remove all hashes (#) from config files

Nice tip - how to remove all hashes from config (or another files).

I know just two methods, but this one I find best:

grep -v ‘^#’ file > file.new

second one (this one overwrite the main file):

sed -e ‘/^#/d’ -i file

you can even use vim, but it will remove all lines with #, not starting from hash.

:g/pattern/d

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Monday, January 14th, 2008 Linux, Tips

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