I have a Bash script that is working on my OpenSuSE box, but when copied across to my Ubuntu box, is not working. The script reads in from a file. The file has fields separated by white space (tabs and spaces).

#!/bin/bash
function test1()
{
    while read LINE
    do
        if [[ $LINE =~ "^$" || $LINE =~ "^#.*" ]] ; then
            continue;
        fi
        set -- $LINE
        local field1=$1
        local field2=$2
    done < test.file
}

test1

with test.file containing:

# Field1Header    Field2Header
abcdef            A-2
ghijkl            B-3

There seem to be two problems:

(1) $field2, the one with the hyphen, is blank

(2) The regex to strip out the blank lines and lines that start with # is not working

Anyone know what's wrong? As I said, it works fine on OpenSuSE.

Thanks, Paul