Shell Programming and Scripting

for TEST in `cat $FILE | grep -E -v '#|/+' | awk '{FS=":"}NF > 0{print $1}'`
do
.
.
done

for TEST in `cat $FILE | grep -E -v '#|/+' | awk '{FS=":"}NF > 0{print $1}'`

awk '$0 !~ /pattern to exclude/ {action}' $FILE

awk '$1 ~ /^[^-#/+]/' $FILE

#test
+abc
-xyz
real

for TEST in $(awk '$1 ~ /^[^-#/+]/' "$FILE"); do
     something "$TEST"
done

while read line; do
   if [[ "$line" =~ ^[^-+#] ]]; then
        echo "Do something with $line"
   fi
done < "$FILE"