Shell Programming and Scripting

My apologies about the code tags - will make sure I do that moving forward.. Thank you..

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Thank you for replying..

Actually not really scripting isn't my strong suite - continuously trying to learn and understand..

As for is it dashes or underscore, they are from the first line of the input file which were headers.. In a previous step that populates the OUTFILE2 I exclude some items but it left the dashes or underscores of the header..

General text:

Here is the output from the script:
Dash's

Code:

vserver cifs share create -vserver ------------- -share-name ---------- -path ----

Blank line:

Code:

vserver cifs share create -vserver

Input file looks something like this:

Code:

vserver share-name path 
 ------------- ---------- ---- 
 SVM_A   admin$ /

I am able to delete the first line by omitting share-name but the dashes or underscore still appear..

Moderator's Comments:

Didn't you say: "code tags - will make sure I do that moving forward"? Please use CODE tags as required by forum rules!

My apologies - I didn't consider those lines code because they are just general text.. I will make it code moving forward..

So there are two header lines. In that case you could modify my suggestion like this:

Code:

{
  read; read                     # skip header lines

It might well be that my arithmetics is a bit weird, but I see the dashes in line 2. This is not what Scrutinizer allowed for - his code will eliminate vserver share-name path but NOT the dashes. And, the "blank line" might NOT be empty if the code does not eliminate it.
So - what do you want to do - suppress both lines? Print line1, suppress line2? What's in the last, "blank" line?

The 1st line is the first line in the input file.. The blank line is the last line of the input file - has about 200 lines total.. I remove the words from the 1st line but the dashes or underscores are still there.. The blank line is also there as well..

Thanks