[clamav-users] Version 0.98.3 hard loops on "clamdscan -V"

[Bowie Bailey]

On 5/9/2014 7:41 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote:
> On 5/9/14, 7:33 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>> On 5/8/2014 10:35 PM, Eric Shubert wrote:
>>> [root at qmt-cos5 etc]# grep -v ^# clamd.conf | grep -v ^$
>> Inefficiency bugs me...  You can do multiple patterns with a single grep using
>> the -e flag.
>>
>> grep -v -e ^# -e ^$ clamd.conf
>>
> Try (and there are surely others even shorter)
>
>     egrep -v '^(#|$)' clamd.*f

That works too, but I was more concerned with the extra grep process 
than anything else.  You also lose a bit of readability that way as you 
have to parse the (admittedly simple) regexp to figure out what it is doing.

-- 
Bowie