6 Dec
2017
6 Dec
'17
5:53 a.m.
George Michaelson <ggm(a)algebras.org> wrote:
The choice of "# " and "> "
interests me. Because roots prompt of
"hash" has a side effect of making a cut-paste over it a comment in
most shells.
"#" as the root prompt predates # as the comment in the Bourne shell,
not to mention predating copy/paste entirely. (My understanding is that
the do-nothing command, ":" was used for comments. Talk about minimalist!)
Same point for ">", since copy/paste didn't exist in the late 70s when
Bourne was doing the shell, it wasn't an issue.
Arnold