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The script that handles the config file is going to be run automatically every few minutes. It seemed strange to me to be re-stripping out comments on the same file every few minutes. But with the pipe set up this way, it does handle the other part of my question also, so perhaps this way is best. Thanks.

Wildcard
– Wildcard

2015-11-20 20:55:00 +00:00
Commented Nov 20, 2015 at 20:55
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any other program that reads in a config file is going to be processing comments on every run too. if it bothers you, then strip the comments and redirect to, say, "$configfile.nocomments" only if "$configfile" is newer than "$configfile.nocomments", and use "$configfile.nocomments" as input to the while loop.

cas
– cas

2015-11-20 21:05:28 +00:00
Commented Nov 20, 2015 at 21:05

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