Question

I have the following input:

/ > blablabla
title 1 
-------
title 2
-------
...
-------
title n
/ > 

Now i need to read only the lines that contain titles, so i must remove the —— and / >.
I managed to exclude all the —– with:

if [ "$LINE" != "-------" ] 

But the problme is to remove the two lines:

/ >blablabla
/ >

(where blablabla could possible change). I want to exclude all the strings thata start with: “/ >”
But i tried in several ways without success.

With:

if [[ $LINE!=/* ]]

i had no success.
What is the correct way to obtain that result?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

while read line; do
  case $line in
    '/ >'*|---*)
      continue;;
  esac
  echo "$line"
done << \EOF
/ >blablabla
title 1 
-------
title 2
-------
...
-------
title n
/ > 
EOF