Re: [tlug] Bourne / bash problem

[Dave Brown <dagbrown@example.com>]

On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 08:13:21PM +0900, Romeo Theriault wrote:
> > 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.

Verified as not working in bash in my own experimentation.  It would
seem there's no way of interspersing comments with parameters, except
possibly by (ugly) assigning them to variables and commenting that.

Zannen.

--Dave