using egrep and excluding lines beginning in #
 

Hi,

I am trying to write a script to check the contents of a file for a space that is not on a line that begins with # (comment). Spaces are illegal in the file, unless in comments. I know that ^ is used to match characters at the beginning of the line, but I dont know how to exclude those results and print lines that dont begin with # containing spaces. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks for the help.

Chris

`egrep -v ^#` will exclude the lines beginning with #

thanks for the quick reply, thats perfect.

chris