Is there any way to disable creation of soft link without using #

[Pawan Sangal]

Hi,

I've a script like:

test.sh
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#!/bin/bash

echo "first"

ln -s ~/log/file pks

echo "second"
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Is there any way ? so that when my script runs, it should not create any link as mentioned above . Is that possible ?

IF I don't want to use a # to make it comment. so what else.......Any help ?

Thanks-
Pawan

[egan]

I don't know why you don't want to use a hash mark, but I suppose you could use a here document (this is generally used for larger blocs of text).

[Pawan Sangal]

Hello egan,

Thanks a lot for your suggestion, I just came up with a newer one (newer only to me, might be you're already friendly with this).

If you use a ":" at the start of any line instead of the usual "#" it won't get executed at all. But, the scope is limited to a single line only, with no other ";" in that line.

I used the ":" and now the link is not being created by the script.

I might have posted a silly question, but just to get another trick, in explaining the things to novice users, like me.

Thanks-
Pawan

I don't know why you don't want to use a hash mark, but I suppose you could use a here document (this is generally used for larger blocs of text).