[svlug] bash scripts - config files with comments?

[Robert Hajime Lanning]

<quote who="Florin Andrei">

> So, is there a way to use "real", flexible config files from within a
> bash script?
> What I need is to specify a list of things, one element per line, and
> be able to comment out lines, add empty lines (that get ignored), be
> able to mistakenly add TAB or SPACE to the lines and not get
> punished for it, etc.
> The main script would parse the list into an array or something like
> that.

while read LINE; do
   LINE="`echo "$LINE" | sed -e 's/#.*$//' -e 's/^\s\s*//' \
          -e 's/\s\s*$//'`"
   if [ -n "$LINE" ]; then
      : do what you want here
   fi
done < config-file

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