Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> comment_char is a command? Did you mean
>
> comment_char=$(echo "$comment_char" | cut -c1)
;-)
> It could be written without forking a process:
>
> comment_char=${comment_char%${comment_char#?}}
>
> (aka "remove from the end what remains after removing the first character")
Hopefully nobody would include any glob metacharacters in there,
e.g. "core.commentchar='=*'", which would break that?