Comments in .filetool.lst and .xfiletool.lst

[SamK]

When adding user created entries in either /opt/.filetool.lst or /opt/.xfiletool.lst is it possible to add comments to indicate the reason for them.  If so what is the comment character?
   

[maro]

I had "a bit of a read" in the source code of BusyBox (v1.14.3, file: archival/tar.c). And I'm pretty sure that there is no such thing as a treatment for a comment line.

I believe it would not be difficult to enhance the code, but I doubt that Robert and the team would like to go down this road. Mind you the use of 'tar' in '/usr/bin/filetool.sh' is not limited to the BusyBox applet, so if you got tar.tgz installed this GNU version would be used instead.

Finally I did a quick test using the only sensible comment character (i.e. '#'), and both BusyBox tar as well as GNU tar are complaining (with different error messages each).

[SamK]

I had "a bit of a read" in the source code of BusyBox (v1.14.3, file: archival/tar.c). And I'm pretty sure that there is no such thing as a treatment for a comment line.

It is regrettable that comments are not accepted, however your investigation is valuable and your feedback welcome.  Many thanks.

[vitex]

You have the option to maintain the master copies of the configuration files with comments (e.g., lines starting with "#") and to remove those comments with a command such as

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grep -v '^#'