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Author: Daniel Gilly & the Staff of O'Reilly & Associates
Date: 1998-08-06T21:58:38Z

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| Chapter 4 The Bourne Shell and Korn Shell |

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Ignore all text that follows on the same line. `#` is used in shell scripts as the comment character and is not really a command. (Take care when commenting a Bourne shell script. A file that has `#` as its first character is sometimes interpreted as a C shell script.)

4.6 Built-in Commands (Bourne and Korn Shell) |  | Reference: #!shell