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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash script to find comments in file Post 302925995 by ksmarine1980 on Thursday 20th of November 2014 03:51:18 PM
Old 11-20-2014
Thank you everyone for your help. I want to read in the from from the command line, search for comments, then output to the screen: example ./myscript.bash <comments_script.sh. If no comments are found in the script, then I simply want to output "No comments found."

Here's what I have so far, which prompts me for more info. I know it's a simple exercise for most of you, but for my first month of programming it's a challenge for me.

Code:
n=1
while read -r line
do      if [ "$line" != "${line#*#}" ]
        then
                printf '%d\t%s\n' $n "$line"
        else
                echo "No comments found"
        fi
        n=$((n + 1))
done

 

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SHCOMP(1)						    User Environment Utilities							 SHCOMP(1)

NAME

       shcomp - compile a ksh93 shell script

SYNOPSIS

       shcomp [ options ] [infile] [outfile]]

ORIGIN OF THIS MAN PAGE

       This man page was written by Christophe Martin <Schplurtz@free.fr> for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It is based on "shcomp --man" output.

DESCRIPTION

       Unless  -D  is  specified,  shcomp takes a shell script, infile, and creates a binary format file, outfile, that ksh93 can read and execute
       with the same effect as the original script.

       Since aliases are processed as the script is read, alias definitions whose value requires variable expansion will not work correctly.

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       locale specific versions for internationalization.

       If  outfile is omitted, then the results will be written to standard output.  If infile is also omitted, the shell script will be read from
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OPTIONS

       -D, --dictionary
	      Generate a list of strings that need to be placed in a message catalog for internationalization.

       -n, --noexec
	      Displays warning messages for obsolete or non-conforming constructs.

       -v, --verbose
	      Displays input from infile onto standard error as it reads it.

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EXIT STATUS

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EXAMPLE

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SEE ALSO

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