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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash script to find comments in file Post 302925881 by ksmarine1980 on Thursday 20th of November 2014 12:38:51 AM
Old 11-20-2014
Bash script to find comments in file
As I stated in a previous thread - I'm a newbie to Unix/Linux and programming. I'm trying to learn the basics on my own using a couple books and the exercises provided inside.

I've reached an exercise that has me stumped. I need to write a bash script that will will read in a file and print the line number and script line of all lines including comments. Normally this wouldn't be difficult, but I'm not supposed to use sed, awk, grep, etc (only Bash). I have the skeleton in place, but I'm missing how to pull only the comments and display the line number. Any help would be appreciated.

Code:
#!bin/bash

while read line
do
echo $line
done

 

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BASHBUG(1)							      bashbug								BASHBUG(1)

NAME

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SYNOPSIS

       bashbug [--help] [--version] [bug-report-email-addresses]

DESCRIPTION

       bashbug is a utility for reporting bugs in Bash to the maintainers.

       bashbug will start up your preferred editor with a preformatted bug report template for you to fill in. Save the file and quit the editor
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       by giving a comma separated list of bug-report-email-addresses.

       If you invoke bashbug by accident, just quit your editor. You will always be asked for confirmation before a bug report is sent.

OPTIONS

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	      Show a brief usage message and exit.

       --version
	      Show the version of bashbug and exit.

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ENVIRONMENT

       DEFEDITOR
	      Editor to use for editing the bug report.

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	      Editor to use for editing the bug report (overridden by DEFEDITOR).

SEE ALSO

       bash(1), reportbug(1), update-alternatives(8) for preferred editor.

AUTHOR

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