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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Read the lines without starting with # Post 302439588 by dr.house on Friday 23rd of July 2010 05:24:54 AM
Old 07-23-2010
Code:
#!/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

 

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