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
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,