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Archie Webster
Archie Webster

Reputation: 364

What does #~ mean in bash script?

For example:

#~ echo -e "Hello World"

I know # is for a comment and this line is a comment but on every line in the script that I am looking at it is placed after the #

Upvotes: 1

Views: 977

Answers (1)

fzbd
fzbd

Reputation: 507

These sort of comments are part of GNU gettext format for PO files (used for translations), in particular obsolete messages:

[...] the messages which are not present in the source any more. All obsolete messages are grouped at the end of the merged PO file, and fully commented out by the #~ comment

Perhaps the author of your script generated those comments with the gettext toolset, or adopted the same syntax to communicate a similar meaning.

References:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/PO-Files.html http://pology.nedohodnik.net/doc/user/en_US/ch-poformat.html

Upvotes: 2

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