sed -e 's/#.*//' -e 's/[ ^I]*$//’ -e ‘/^$/ d’
…so I don’t have to think of it again.
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Thanks for the one-liner. This is exactly the thing I was looking for to help parse a hosts file.
sed -e ’s/#.*//’ -e ’s/[ ^I]*$//g’ -e ‘/^$/ d’ -e ’s/127.0.0.1 //g’ -e ‘1,3d’