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From: bfox@AUREL.CNS.CALTECH.EDU (Brian Fox)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: bash version (novice question)
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Date: 15 Nov 89 09:47:20 GMT
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   Date: 15 Nov 89 01:07:45 GMT
   From: raulmill@usc.edu  (Raul Deluth Rockwell)
   Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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   How do you tell which version of bash you are running?

echo $BASH_VERSION

   I'm using a version which one of the systems people here installed
   that has such wonderful features as '# is not a comment character'.

This is a deliberate feature if you are talking about interactive use.
If Bash doesn't ignore comments in shell scripts, then it is a bug.

Brian