On 08/16/2012 06:36 PM, Keith Clifford wrote:
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> some_var=# What I thought was a comment.
^
Not the first byte of a word.
# starts a comment only when it is the first byte of a word.
You can write:
some_var= #Now this is a comment, since there is space between = and #
if you meant
On Thursday 16 August 2012 20:36:45 Keith Clifford wrote:
> some_var=# What I thought was a comment.
>
> 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) beha
Hi,
I first noticed this in a shell script under mingw but tested it in bash
under Linux and it has the same behaviour.
some_var=# What I thought was a comment.
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 com
