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>>From my previous message:

   Did you specify which shell you are using?  If it is bash, then #
   starts a comment at the beginning of a word, elsewhere it has symbol
   syntax.

To avoid confusion:

"word" is here, of course, meant in the bash sense, not in the Elisp
sense.

Sincerely,

Luc.