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    No need to escape the space character, no need to capture the space character, no need to specify the default action: awk '!/^ *#/' ./text. Commented Nov 28, 2011 at 15:42
  • awk '/^ *#/{next}1' file should be good enough. Commented Dec 23, 2011 at 5:01