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Hi There,

Did any one tried similar stuff. if so please share the details.

Thank you,
bala.

Hi Bala,

Maybe you should explain to window users that you want countryinfo.txt without comment lines. Isn't there a grep for windows, btw?

Fred.

Hi Fred,

Thx for the reply. i dont think there is a grep option availabel in Windows. there are some programs i can use which stimulates the grep command but that setp is a bit complex.

Thank you,
bala.

I downloaded cgwin. not things are fine. thx for the help.

You don't need to execute that cat | grep on Windows.

What the command does is go thru countryInfo.txt and copy each line into countryInfo-n.txt with the exception of lines which start with #. So it is just removing the comment lines. You can do this manually in a text editor.

If you want a break down of what is happening, cat is outputting the text file,
^# means 'where first character is #'
-v means 'do opposite'
grep is searching,
> countryInfo-n.txt means pipe the output into a file

So in affect, its listing the file, searching for lines not starting with # and outputting them into another text file.

Hi Bala,

I think that you should try something like this: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/grep.htm

I can't test it since I no longer run Windows but it looks good to me.