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From: goldfarb@ucf-cs.UUCP (Ben Goldfarb Esq.)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: /bin/sh feature?
Message-ID: <1370@ucf-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Jul-84 09:49:51 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  9 09:49:51 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Jul-84 03:26:03 EDT
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This points out the hazard of using ':' for a comment delimiter instead
of '#'.  The shell DOES interpret special characters like quotes and
parentheses after the ':', whereas everything on a line after a '#' is
ignored (at least on 4.1bsd systems).  Thus, in your example the apostrophe 
is taken as the start of a quoted literal which never ends.  I've seen
similar problems here and so I advise my shell programmers to use '#'
as the comment delimiter.  I'd be interested in hearing whether this is
indeed a bug or feature.
				Ben Goldfarb
				{duke,decvax,princeton}!ucf-cs!goldfarb