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The pound character, ‘#’, may be used to start comments, in addition to ‘%’. See the previous example. The major advantage of this is that as ‘#’ is also a comment character for unix script files, any file that starts with a string like ‘#! /usr/bin/octave -q’ will be treated as an octave script and be executed by octave.