Would you like to learn how to delete all comment lines from a file? In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to remove all comment lines from a file on a computer running Linux.

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Tutorial Linux - Show only uncommented lines

Create a text file.

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Here is the file content.

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Show only uncommented lines.

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Here is the command output.

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Display only uncommented lines and remove empty lines.

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Here is the command output.

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Congratulations! You learned how to show only uncommented lines and remove blank lines from a file on Linux.

Tutorial Linux - Remove comment lines

Create a text file.

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Here is the file content.

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Remove comment lines.

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Here is the file content.

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Remove comment lines and remove empty lines.

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Here is the file content.

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Congratulations! You learned how to remove commented lines and delete blank lines from a file on Linux.