Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello all,

I am writing up an input file and I was hoping I could get some guidance as to how to best consolidate these 2 awk statements for 1 while loop.

Here's my input file

Code:

# cat databases.lst
#NOTE: These entries are delimited by tabs "\t"
#oracleSID      name/pass
#
db11    harry/hill
db22    bill/peter
test    erin/ast

Here is statement 1 which goes through the tabbed input file

Code:

awk 'BEGIN{min=3; FS="\t";} {if (NR>min) print}' databases.lst | while read _sid _credentials
do
        # I set some variables,etc 
        # but for testing purposes
        echo "$_sid and $_credentials"      
 
done

But I also wanted the flexibility to check to see if an entry in the input file was commented out which I can use the following statement for

Code:

awk '!/^#/' databases.lst

The problem is I can't figure out how to consolidate these 2 statements into one while loop. My initial idea was to loop through the code with my first statement and within that statement I would check to see if that row has a comment in the front in my if clause. I will keep trying different methods, but I would love to hear some the input from the community. I'm still learning to use awk so if there are better ways of implementing this I would love to hear your thoughts!

Thanks!
Erin

This maybe?

Code:

awk '!/^#/' databases.lst | while read _sid _credentials; do
	echo "$_sid and $_credentials"
done

NR>min is not neccessary, as the 3-lines comment are matched with !/^#/

Thanks tukuyomi, I was overcomplicating things again