nocom: script that shows files without comments

nocom

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+usage (){
+    echo "Usage: nocom <filename>"
+    echo ""
+    echo "nocom simply removes all lines starting with '#'"
+    echo "and pipes it to less"
+    echo "nocom -h or nocom --help to view this again"
+    echo ""
+    echo "This script is in the public domain."
+}
+
+if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
+    echo "No filename provided"
+    usage
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+while getopts ":h:" o; do
+    case "${o}" in
+        h)
+            usage
+             ;;
+        *)
+            usage
+            ;;
+    esac
+done
+shift $((OPTIND-1))
+
+sed -e 's:^\s*#.*$::g' -e '/^$/d'  $1 | less
+