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Viliam Balaz
Viliam Balaz

Reputation: 23

How do I put comment on each line in bash for printf?

I have the following code in my Dockerfile. Then I piped the output to my setup.py. I need to run this command in linux terminal. How can i put comment on each line?

  printf "%s\n" \
    # Facebook OAuth Client ID (default)
    "1234" \
    # Facebook OAuth Secret (default)
    "abcd" \
    # Google OAuth Client ID (default)
    "5678" \
    # Google OAuth Secret (default)
    "qwer" \

Upvotes: 2

Views: 111

Answers (2)

andreoss
andreoss

Reputation: 1800

Using arrays in order to avoid long escaped by \ lists of arguments is a good practice. You can leave a comment for each element.

CREDENTIALS=(
    # Facebook OAuth Client ID (default)
    "1234"
    # Facebook OAuth Secret (default)
    "abcd"
    # Google OAuth Client ID (default)
    "5678"
    # Google OAuth Secret (default)
    "qwer"
)
printf "%s\n" "${CREDENTIALS[@]}"

Upvotes: 1

Barmar
Barmar

Reputation: 780984

printf "%s\n" \
    $(: 'Facebook OAuth Client ID (default)') \
    "1234" \
    $(: 'Facebook OAuth Secret (default)') \
    "abcd" \
    $(: 'Google OAuth Client ID (default)') \
    "5678" \
    $(: 'Google OAuth Secret (default)') \
    "qwer"

$(command) is command substitution, it gets replaced with the output of the command.

: is a command that does nothing and produces no output. The argument needs to be quoted because of the (default), which would otherwise be executed as a command in a subshell.

Upvotes: 0

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