Shell Programming and Scripting

cat curve.csv
/*data for today curve*/
/*data for text1*/ this is the header
/*data for text2*/ this is the body

cat curve.csv
this is the header
this is the body

$ awk 'gsub(/\/\*.*\*\//,x) + 1' curve.csv

#!/bin/bash
> /tmp/comment
> /tmp/nocomments
ifs_str="$IFS"
IFS="/"$'\n'
echo '/*data for today curve*/
/*data for text1*/ this is the header
/*data for text2*/ this is the body' >> /tmp/comment
while read line
do
	text=($line)
	echo "${text[2]:1}" >> /tmp/nocomments
done < /tmp/comment
cat < /tmp/nocomments
IFS="$ifs_str"
exit 0

AMIGA:~> cd /tmp
AMIGA:/tmp> chmod 755 comment.sh
AMIGA:/tmp> ./comment.sh

this is the header
this is the body
AMIGA:/tmp> _

while read line
do
 [ "${line##*/}" ] && echo ${line##*/}
done < file

this is the first line  /*print first line*/