Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

I am working on a sh script.
Half way through the script, my comments start to print to screen as if I used echo.
Obviously any comments are preceded with a #.
And I have not used set -x or anything similar.

Can anyone free me of this simple but annoying problem?

Thanks

John

Hi,
If u can post the part of the code where comment is getting printed,then i can take a look into it.
Thanks
Raghuram

My crystal ball is fuzzy, but I think it's saying you are missing one or more quotes (probably on line 42).

Post your code and someone can check it for you.

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:

Code:

echo "\"$location $plant $desig $quantity\" $rid"

Thanks for that - without the space it works perfectly.