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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users File Processing: Handling spaces in a line Post 302874515 by Yoda on Friday 15th of November 2013 11:38:46 AM
Old 11-15-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by baanprog
Iam doing below
Want to remove empty line
Want to remove lines that start with #
When trying to get the substring from the var also Iam having trouble. I dont want to read a line with such substrings.
I noticed that you are using way too many external commands when all of those tasks can be achieved using shell builtins.

Here is an example:
Code:
#!/bin/bash

while read line
do
        # Want to remove empty line
        [[ -z "$line" ]] && continue
        # Want to remove lines that start with #
        [[ "$line" =~ ^# ]] && continue
        # trying to get the substring
        subvar="${line:0:4}"
done < file

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