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| author | Stefan Farfeleder <stefanf@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-01-01 16:02:12 +0000 |
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| committer | Stefan Farfeleder <stefanf@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-01-01 16:02:12 +0000 |
| commit | 7d1a55fc97a9a55a48e2ac0605e2ccfc2e7ebb4a (patch) | |
| tree | abef11100f0dfc33610537ce0aecb1a69c601a3b /bin | |
| parent | 0606b9944a0af7e146ee9aabb929d7d6f9b9be58 (diff) | |
| download | src-7d1a55fc97a9a55a48e2ac0605e2ccfc2e7ebb4a.tar.gz src-7d1a55fc97a9a55a48e2ac0605e2ccfc2e7ebb4a.zip | |
Document that '#' starts a comment.
PR: 85103
Submitted by: garys
Obtained from: pdksh manual
Patch from: Daniel Gerzo (with changes by me)
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=153951
Diffstat (limited to 'bin')
| -rw-r--r-- | bin/sh/sh.1 | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/bin/sh/sh.1 b/bin/sh/sh.1 index 6fa59ede50c2..3c2fa9c356c0 100644 --- a/bin/sh/sh.1 +++ b/bin/sh/sh.1 @@ -362,6 +362,13 @@ The following is a list of valid operators: .It Li <& Ta Li >& Ta Li <<- Ta Li >| .El .El +.Pp +The character +.Ql # +introduces a comment if used at the beginning of a word. +The word starting with +.Ql # +and the rest of the line are ignored. .Ss Quoting Quoting is used to remove the special meaning of certain characters or words to the shell, such as operators, whitespace, keywords, |