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Re: Shell comment ignored
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Mike Frysinger |
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Re: Shell comment ignored |
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Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:23:09 -0400 |
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On Thursday 16 August 2012 20:36:45 Keith Clifford wrote:
> some_var=# What I thought was a comment.
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> The '#' is eaten by the variable assignment so that some_var gets a null
> value and the rest of the line is not treated like a command.
this is correct (if sometimes confusing to people) behavior. you need to have
some byte in there that breaks up the tokens -- be it a tab, space, or
newline.
-mike
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