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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Block Comment in Shell script Post 302124672 by vino on Monday 2nd of July 2007 07:15:15 AM
Old 07-02-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by radoulov
Code:
: '
comments here
and here
'

If your comments contain single quotes:

Code:
: <<'END'
comments' here
and here
END

Just make sure that the string END does not appear among the commented lines. Or chose a marker which is not so easily repeated.

Code:
:<<supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
echo "This will not get printed"
echo "Yet another escape"
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Smilie
 

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script(1)							   User Commands							 script(1)

NAME
script - make record of a terminal session SYNOPSIS
script [-a] [filename] DESCRIPTION
The script utility makes a record of everything printed on your screen. The record is written to filename. If no file name is given, the record is saved in the file typescript. See WARNINGS. The script command forks and creates a sub-shell, according to the value of $SHELL, and records the text from this session. The script ends when the forked shell exits or when Control-d is typed. OPTIONS
The following option is supported: -a Appends the session record to filename, rather than overwriting it. NOTES
script places everything that appears on the screen in filename, including prompts. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |CSI |Enabled | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5) WARNINGS
script can pose a security risk when used in directories that are writable by other users (for example, /tmp), especially when run by a privileged user, that is, root. Be sure that typescript is not a link before running script. SunOS 5.10 30 Jan 2004 script(1)
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