[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <nospam-DA6E3B.16021402022013 at news.chingola.ch>,
	Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> In article 
> <57c7dde5-875e-46e7-a4ff-095bc5d52664 at w7g2000yqo.googlegroups.com>,
>  AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Well, let's see. What does # do in Unix? Why it's either tells you
>> what follows is a comment or when in a prompt what follows is a
>> command run with full super user powers!
>> 
>> Comment vs super user. Nice.

1.  Prompt is the shell, not Unix.
2.  Prompt is totally user settable and has no significance whatsoever.
  Here is mine on the University server:

                  login as: bill
                  Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
                  Password:
                  
                  
                  server1#


3.  I'll bet you also think the su command means "super user".

> 
> You missed out shebang, as in:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_%28Unix%29
> 

I was going to mention that as the on place where a line beginning with
an octothorpe is not a comment and is not ignored.

bill

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