LKBEN10947: To much comments in a file, you cannot see what is important


Symptom

This is often the case under linux!

Cause

This is by design.

Solution

You can easily get comments out of a configuraton file by typing:

less filename|grep ^[^#]

When comments start with #, they are filtered out.

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About the Author

Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.