# is, for better or for worse, an address in sam:
#n The empty string after character n; #0 is the beginning
of the file.
If you're talking about running the script with ^, it's just an
executable. You can put whatever you want in the shebang line; I tend
to use the following:
#!/bin/sed '/^#/d'
# this line is ignored
,x/\*|^ +| +$/d
# this line is also ignored
,x/ +//c/
,x/[‘‘’’“”‘’]/c/"
,x/\\p|\\b/c/\n\n\n
,x/\n\n+/c/\n
Running this as a script outputs only the lines in the file not
beginning with # for interpretation by sam.
To use it with ssam -f, you'd have to use the output rather than the
file directly.
In rc: ssam -f <{script}
In bash: ssam -f <(script)
both send the output to a temporary fd and then return a virtual file
path to that fd for commands like this that expect a file path.
If you really want comments within the sam language itself, the best I
came up with after 5 minutes of thinking was:
x/$^/!#
i.e. run a commented out shell command when an impossible pattern is
matched. The x// is needed to avoid actually launching the shell, and
the !# is needed to avoid interpreting the characters following as
another sam command (even if it's one that would never be run).
- Silas
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