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From: badri@ur-helheim.UUCP (Badri Lokanathan)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: # sign in shell/cshell scripts...
Message-ID: <609@ur-helheim.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Apr-86 17:40:56 EST
Article-I.D.: ur-helhe.609
Posted: Thu Apr 17 17:40:56 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Apr-86 14:18:07 EST
References: <237@Shasta.ARPA>
Reply-To: badri@helheim.UUCP (Badri Lokanathan)
Organization: U. of Rochester, EE Dept.
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In article <237@Shasta.ARPA> ALEX@SU-SIERRA.ARPA writes:
>From: Alex Bronstein <ALEX@SU-SIERRA.ARPA>
>
>Hi,
>	I'm encountering weird problems with sh (and sometimes csh)
>dying on some shell scripts depending on whether or not my first line in
>the script is a comment like:
># This script does this (but not that)
>
>(It dies when the comment is there.)
>
>	I am looking for ANY hint/story/random knowledge concerning
># in shell scripts.
>

# in the first column preceeds comments in shell scripts EXCEPT if it
is the very first character of the file. The BSD 4.2 csh(1) page
mentions this at the bottom of page 18 (?)