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Asked: 2026-06-06T19:52:09+00:00

i am writing this code: awk -F’=’ ‘!/^$/{arr[$1]=$2}END{for (x in arr) {print x=arr[x]}}’ 1.txt

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i am writing this code:

awk -F'=' '!/^$/{arr[$1]=$2}END{for (x in arr) {print x"="arr[x]}}' 1.txt 2.txt

this code ignore blank lines, but i also want to ignore line starting with # (comments).

Any idea how to add multiple patterns?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Change !/^$/ to

    !/^($|#)/

    or

    !/^($|[:space:]*#)/

    if you want to disregard whitespace before the #.

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