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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Ignore lines in Shell Script Post 302625963 by gary_w on Wednesday 18th of April 2012 03:31:31 PM
Old 04-18-2012
Alternatively you could strip out lines starting with a pound sign before feeding them to the while loop:
Code:
#!/bin/bash

MY_FILE=$1

grep -v "^#" $MY_FILE | while read LINE
do
  echo $LINE
done

exit 0

 

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