GURU NEEDED : break a command into several lines and comment each line

[bolega]

Basically, I have spent a few hours experimenting and searching on the
comp.unix.shell

how to break a command with several switches into more than one line
AND to be able to put some comment on each line.

#!/bin/bash -xv

command \ # comment1
-sw1 \ # comment2
-sw2 \ # comment3
arguments

One ought to be able to comment every single switch if desired for
whatever reason.

Bolega

 

[Berthold Höllmann]

Basically, I have spent a few hours experimenting and searching on the
comp.unix.shell

how to break a command with several switches into more than one line
AND to be able to put some comment on each line.

#!/bin/bash -xv

command \ # comment1
-sw1 \ # comment2
-sw2 \ # comment3
arguments

How about

-----------
#!/bin/bash -xv

COMMAND=command # comment1
COMMAND=$COMMAND -sw1 \ # comment2
COMMAND=$COMMAND -sw2 \ # comment3
COMMAND=$COMMAND arguments

$COMMAND
---------
?

Regards
Berthold

One ought to be able to comment every single switch if desired for
whatever reason.

Bolega

--
A: Weil es die Lesbarkeit des Textes verschlechtert.
F: Warum ist TOFU so schlimm?
A: TOFU
F: Was ist das größte Ärgernis im Usenet?

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[Chris Rebert]

Basically, I have spent a few hours experimenting and searching on the
comp.unix.shell

how to break a command with several switches into more than one line
AND to be able to put some comment on each line.

#!/bin/bash -xv

command       \ # comment1
        -sw1 \ # comment2
        -sw2 \ # comment3
        arguments

One ought to be able to comment every single switch if desired for
whatever reason.

This doesn't seem to have anything whatsoever to do with Python...

Regards,
Chris

 

[David W. Hodgins]

how to break a command with several switches into more than one line
AND to be able to put some comment on each line.
command \ # comment1
-sw1 \ # comment2

Not what you want to hear, but that will not work. With the above,
the backslash is being used to escape the following space, rather
then a newline, as is required to continue the line. Even if it
were to work that way, would the next line be considered a continuation
of the command, or of the comment?

Your stuck with

command \
-sw1
# comment1
# comment2

Regards, Dave Hodgins

 

[Steven D'Aprano]

Basically, I have spent a few hours experimenting and searching on the
comp.unix.shell

[...]
This doesn't seem to have anything whatsoever to do with Python...

Well, I launch Python scripts from the shell, so there's your connection.

*wink*