A little more scripting

[musther]

In the thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=170129

I asked for help making a script to do multiple find/replace operations on a text file based on a config file with one line per operation.

The eventual bit of script we came up with was this:

for x in `cat ttspd`
do
f1=`echo $x | cut -d\' -f2`
f2=`echo $x | cut -d\' -f4`
sed -i -e s/\\\<$f1\\\>/$f2/gI text.txt
done

The lines in the config file are like this:

'foo'='bar'

So, I would like to put comments in the config file 'ttspd' in the usual linuxy fasion '# comment', is there an easy way to make this loop ignore lines starting with #?

Cheers!

[daneel_olivaw]

should be something like that:

for x in `cat ttspd | grep -v "#"`
do
f1=`echo $x | cut -d\' -f2`
f2=`echo $x | cut -d\' -f4`
sed -i -e s/\\\<$f1\\\>/$f2/gI text.txt
done

assuming your original script works by itself :P

PS: Lol, it states "0" replies while showing this very reply of mine.