[svlug] bash scripts - config files with comments?

[Robert Citek]

On 08/16/2007 04:32 PM, Robert Hajime Lanning wrote:
> 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

Avoiding sed:

while read LINE; do
   LINE=${LINE%%#*}
   [ -z "$LINE" ] && continue
   : do what you want here
done < config-file

Regards,
- Robert