Writing a CLI command in terminal with a comment at the end

Asked Apr 06 '21 at 19:44

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I realize, it's possible to use the # in shell scripts:

#we're about to do something because we want to
do_something();

It would be nice however to occasionally write a comment inline at the command prompt, and I haven't seen a way to do this:

owilliams@OWILL04833 ~/go/test-tools$ ls -la config*     #find all configuration files
error: ls: #find: No such file or directory

especially so it would go in .bash_history or .zsh_history. Is this possible?

asked Apr 06 '21 at 19:44

Oliver Williams

That works actually. Are you sure you are running `bash`? – mkayaalp Apr 06 '21 at 20:00
hm, I am running `zsh`. Is there an equivalent way to do it? – Oliver Williams Apr 06 '21 at 20:02
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See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11670935/comments-in-command-line-zsh – mkayaalp Apr 06 '21 at 20:05
instead of `#` you can often use `;: ` (must have a trailing space) – jhnc Apr 06 '21 at 21:17

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