Showing posts with label config file. Show all posts
Showing posts with label config file. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 8, 2019

How to view httpd.conf file or any config files in Linux without coments

Hello,

Have you ever wondered how to view the Linux configurations files without those comments? Well those comments are indeed helpful, but think about configuration files such as httpd.conf and squid.conf files. These files have good amount of commented lines.

The issue with the httpd.conf file in particular is that not all commented lines starts with #. Some commented lines start after a tab.

Example:
# Further relax access to the default document root:

    #
    # Possible values for the Options directive are "None", "All",
    # or any combination of:
    #   Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks SymLinksifOwnerMatch ExecCGI MultiViews
You could remove those tabbed comments as well using "sed" or using "egrep" with proper Regex.


# egrep -v "^$|*#" /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Or

# sed '/ *#/d; /^ *$/d' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf


Hope this helps.

Regards,
Jay