Shell Programming and Scripting

If you are having problems with comments in the shell scripts that are being fed into the script you specified in post #1 in this thread, you don't need to start a new thread; otherwise, you do.

Either way you need to explain what comments need to be removed and exactly how your awk script is supposed to determine what you consider to be a "comment line at the very beginning". The only comment shown in your sample input file(s) is:

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

and I don't see why removing that comment from your input files will make any difference in your results. If you don't supply representative sample input files corresponding to the data you want to process, you are wasting time for all of us.

Most easy: at the beginning of the awk script put

Code:

/^#/ { next }

It will skip the following code whenever a #comment is met.

Note that it can't quite be at the beginning of the script... It has to come after:

Code:

awk ' NR==1 {
                        print "File      | Jobname |  node  | pfile               | metafile            | tname | priority | delay" # to be replaced by tab
                   }

or you won't get the desired heading line in your output file.

Good point. The correct location is here

Code:

awk ' NR==1 { ...
  }
/^#/ { next }