Shell Programming and Scripting

#Working directory 
WORK_DIR|/home/mypath
#Remote directory
REMOTE_DIR|/home/remote

 while read line;
 do
    KEY=`echo "$line" | cut -d "|" -f 1`
    if [ $KEY = WORK_DIR ]
    then
          WORK_DIR=`echo "$line" | grep $KEY | cut -d "|" -f 2`
    elif [ $KEY =  REMOTE_DIR ]
    then
          REMOTE_DIR=`echo "$line" | grep $KEY | cut -d "|" -f 2`
    fi

grep -v "^#" file | while read line
do
  ...
done

awk -F"|" '!/^#/ { print $2}' < file

sed -e '/^#/d' -e 's/.*|//' file

#!/bin/bash

while read LINE
do
  case ${LINE:0:1} in
    "W") WD=$( echo $LINE | cut -d'|' -f2 ) ;;
    "R") RD=$( echo $LINE | cut -d'|' -f2 ) ;;
    "#") continue ;;
  esac
done < data

exit 0
#finis