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- Submitted-by: djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie)
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- >>The only explicit mention of `#' for the shell in p1003.2a is in the
- >>description of the Vi editing mode. It's a command to comment-out the
- >>current line (excerpted below). ...
-
- > That's disgusting!
- > If 1003.2 is going to break zillions of existing carefuly-written shell
- > scripts, then it ought not to be adopted.
-
- Don't worry, no shell scripts are in danger (at least for this reason).
-
- We're talking about 1003.2a, the User Portability Extension, here, not
- the base 1003.2 standard. 1003.2 does specify traditional post-v7
- Bourne behavior for comments in shell scripts. The question was, does
- 1003.2a specify the same behavior for interactive use. It appears
- that it does.
- --
- David J. MacKenzie <djm@eng.umd.edu> <djm@ai.mit.edu>
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- Volume-Number: Volume 27, Number 53
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