"Caleb Cushing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the line > FEATURES="parallel-fetch ccache distlocks"# userfetch userpriv usersandbox > > I was told my bug is not a bug because there was no space in between the "# > > putting a space does fix the problem but I can't recall that I've ever seen > any documentation saying that mid line comments need a space before the #
man bash, in the section COMMENTS: a word beginning with # causes that word and all remaining characters on that line to be ignored In your case, the # is not at the beginning of a word, so it doesn't start a comment. (Quotes don't separate words; a word can be partly quoted and partly not.) paul _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
