/bin/sh feature?

[Ben Goldfarb Esq.]

This points out the hazard of using ':' for a comment delimiter instead
of '#'.  The shell DOES interpret special characters like quotes and
parentheses after the ':', whereas everything on a line after a '#' is
ignored (at least on 4.1bsd systems).  Thus, in your example the apostrophe 
is taken as the start of a quoted literal which never ends.  I've seen
similar problems here and so I advise my shell programmers to use '#'
as the comment delimiter.  I'd be interested in hearing whether this is
indeed a bug or feature.
				Ben Goldfarb
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