Re: Syntax highlighting Problem in for Bash

2011-10-21 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 21/10/11 15:17, Tom Bodine wrote: I was bitten by the old unexpected EOF while looking for matching `' error in bash. Where you start a comment some where in the middle of your script and forget to place a quote mark at the end. After searching through the text I could not find any

Re: Syntax highlighting Problem in for Bash

2011-10-21 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2011-10-21, Tony Mechelynck wrote: In bash (as can be seen with help : without the quotes at the bash prompt) : is a do-nothing command. So it can be regarded as legitimate to treat it as a comment. While it is true that the : command does nothing, its arguments are still expanded,