Hi, I first noticed this in a shell script under mingw but tested it in bash under Linux and it has the same behaviour.
some_var=# What I thought was a comment. The '#' is eaten by the variable assignment so that some_var gets a null value and the rest of the line is not treated like a command. If there is no space after the '#': some_var=#What Then some_var is set to '#What'. Regards, Keith Clifford.
