Re: Syntax question

[Paul Jarc]

"Caleb Cushing" <xenoterracide@gmail.com> wrote:
> the line
> FEATURES="parallel-fetch ccache distlocks"# userfetch userpriv usersandbox
>
> I was told my bug is not a bug because there was no space in between the "#
>
> putting a space does fix the problem but I can't recall that I've ever seen
> any documentation saying that mid line comments need a space before the #

man bash, in the section COMMENTS:
  a word beginning with # causes that word and all remaining
  characters on that line to be ignored

In your case, the # is not at the beginning of a word, so it doesn't
start a comment.  (Quotes don't separate words; a word can be partly
quoted and partly not.)


paul