in reply to How do I strip lines prefixed by a "#"

you can use the bash grep running externally grep -v '^#' file

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Re: Answer: How do I strip lines prefixed by a
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 28, 2003 at 06:36 UTC 
    Administrator@C ~
$ cat t
one
#two
#three
four
#five
six

Administrator@C ~
$ perl -ne 'print if not m/^#.*/' <t
one
four
six
    (or in K: 
    x@&~"#"=*:'x
    )
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