How to loop through lines of text in a text file from a shell script dynamically
There are times when we need to dynamically run shell commands based on the items listed in a text file.
The shell script that I ran in my bash shell does the following:
for each line separated by newline and not preceded by a ‘#’ character, print the line to console.
In order to build the shell script, I would need the following code pieces:
- A way to remove/delete empty lines or leading and trailing whitespace in a text file
- A way to loop through the text file, line by line
- A way to check if the first character of the string
This post documents what I had ran in my bash shell (in Ubuntu 14.0.4) to loop through items separated by newlines in a text file.
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