Re: [tlug] Bourne / bash problem

[Romeo Theriault <romeo.theriault@example.com>]

somewhere, I cannot escape the end-of line:
   [...]
   a-command \
   # a comment \
   another-command  #  another comment \
   [...]

Do you think there would be a way to include comments in such a situation?

According to my "Portable Shell Programming" book. These situations will not work with comments:

echo "This will not work."   \<space>
echo "This will not work."   \ # Comment
echo "This will not work."   # Comment   \

The above mentioned book is based around the borne shell (sh) but I don't think that bash changed any rules around comments.

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Romeo Theriault
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