Hmmmm I guess a few clues would have been helpful.
Via a process of elimination, I tracked the problem to the following line:
echo "\"$location $plant $desig $quantity\ " $rid"
After this statement all comments where echoed to the screen and echo didnt work.
For example echo $func would not show the content of func
Once I commented the line out - problem gone - so I presume there is something in the syntax of that one particular line that caused the problem.
There's a space after the second backslash, so that the quote is not escaped. It should (presumably) be:
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echo
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echo - display a line of text
SYNOPSIS
echo [OPTION]... [STRING]...
DESCRIPTION
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of echo which will supercede the version described here. Please refer to your shell's documenta-
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Echo the STRING(s) to standard output.
-n do not output the trailing newline
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output version information and exit
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GNU coreutils 4.5.3 February 2003 ECHO(1)