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From: jwp@uwmacc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Comment lines in the Bourne shell
Message-ID: <1194@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9-Jun-85 19:09:36 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  9 19:09:36 1985
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Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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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