Comment lines in the Bourne shell
jwp at uwmacc.UUCP
jwp at uwmacc.UUCP
Mon Jun 10 09:09:36 AEST 1985
I've noticed that on my system (2.8BSD) the Bourne shell
comment character doesn't do what I expected. The shell
still looks at some characters on the line, even though
the line is commented out. For example, the comment
: to use this file type <name> | lpr
produces a message referring to the pipe, even though the whole
line is commented out. What am I missing?
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Jeff Percival ...!uwvax!uwmacc!jwp
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