From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com> To: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT banet DOT net>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 23:52:35 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Bash 2.04 beta 6a Message-ID: <39F77243.19193.27836A@localhost> In-reply-to: <4.3.1.0.20001025221409.00ad89b0@pop5.banet.net> References: <39F4D6CB DOT 20960 DOT 364B6C AT localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk > I begin to suspect there may be a lexing error here, where bash thinks > the "#" is a comment character. Could that be the problem? I think so. The Bash manual says this about comments: In a non-interactive shell, or an interactive shell in which the `interactive_comments' option to the `shopt' builtin is enabled (*note Bash Builtins::.), a word beginning with `#' causes that word and all remaining characters on that line to be ignored. An interactive shell without the `interactive_comments' option enabled does not allow comments. The `interactive_comments' option is on by default in interactive shells. *Note Is This Shell Interactive?::, for a description of what makes a shell interactive.