# Filebeat excluding lines **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Created:** [June 6, 2016, 10:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-excluding-lines/51925 "2016-06-06T10:13:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Uros\_Meglic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/edb3f5/32.png) [@Uros\_Meglic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Uros_Meglic)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 10:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-excluding-lines/51925/1 "2016-06-06T10:13:27Z")
Hello, what would be correct setting for "exclude\_lines". I would like to exclude every line that begins with "#". Currently I'm using "exclude\_lines: ["^#"]". Is this ok? Thank you and kind regards, Uros ---
**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-excluding-lines/51925/2 "2016-06-06T13:42:09Z")
This looks ok. Not sure if # is a special char and perhaps '..' should be used. Did you try it out and it didn't work? ---
**Author:** ![Uros\_Meglic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/edb3f5/32.png) [@Uros\_Meglic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Uros_Meglic)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 6:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-excluding-lines/51925/3 "2016-06-07T06:15:33Z")
Hello, yeah, it is working. At least it looks like it. 🙂 I just wanted a second opinion... Thanks and kind regards, Uros ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 10:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-excluding-lines/51925/4 "2016-06-27T10:13:28Z")
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