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Old 02-24-2007
paulsew paulsew is offline
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skip reading certain lines in a file
How can I exclude reading lines in a file that contains the following:

filesystem:/home/pach/liv_patches 128005120 88456640 37270758 71% /home/patches

That is, all lines that contain and begins with filesystem: should not be processed/read from a file