Forcing /bin/sh in a script under V/386 3.2 Korn shell

[Stephen J. Friedl]

In article <1792 at cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM>, ned at pebbles.cad.mcc.com (CME Ned Nowotny) writes:
> In fact, one of the most useful things you could do
> with ":" was to comment your shell script since ":" does nothing
> with the arguments (a.k.a.  comment string) that you may provide
> it.

While this is true, it can be misleading.  In particular, the line

	cat file file2 > file3

isn't commented out by prefixing it with a colon.  Cat doesn't run,
but redirection *will* take place and file3 will be truncated.

     Steve

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