Hi
to all in this great forum, im sure this has been asked lots of times before but ive been looking for the past day and cant find the answer.
I use cat/some/file to display its contents but how can i get it to not display hashed out lines, or do i need another command,
Thanks in advance:)
grep -v '^#' data.file
For basic use grep (man grep) or for more advanced options awk or sed.
grep -v "^#" /some/file
maybe does the trick....
edit: to late 
You can also use sed
sed "/^#/d" file
... and awk :rolleyes:
awk '! /^#/' file
Thanks all that did the trick, though it didnt work out the way i expected, i use the command to show whats in a file then edit it and automatically save when closed
it does open the fie, allows me to edit it then saves it when i close it, only trouble is it does not usually display the original contents of the file, however it sometimes does but very accasionally
sed "/^#/d" /somefile | zenity --text-info --width=560 --editable > somefile