From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
To: Terry Jones <terry@jon.es>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] sh: cmd | >file
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 17:33:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <df91940b-737d-1c7c-635a-207615842a77@case.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACqnu4UAUQmPOfjmz1ZVgNtVRFG=9a=PYtGu4vSKGHv05aNjSg@mail.gmail.com>
On 1/4/20 5:19 PM, Terry Jones wrote:
> Was : actually designed for commenting? If so, at what point did it become
> a command that always returns zero exit status? Was it always built-in, or
> did it originally have a separate filesystem existence (like "[")? Python
> has a useful "pass" command, but : is much nicer because you can "comment"
> out a single command in (e.g.) an if/then and it remains syntactically
> valid and executable. I find it very elegant.
It's elegant until you forget that `:' continues to process redirections.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-04 22:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-04 2:58 Doug McIlroy
2020-01-04 10:07 ` markus schnalke
2020-01-04 11:47 ` Robert Clausecker
2020-01-04 22:31 ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-04 21:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-04 21:06 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-05 0:03 ` Eric Allman
2020-01-05 1:49 ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-05 2:44 ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-05 8:15 ` Brantley Coile
2020-01-05 15:16 ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-04 21:11 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-04 21:39 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-04 22:19 ` Terry Jones
2020-01-04 22:33 ` Chet Ramey [this message]
2020-01-04 23:53 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-05 0:04 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2020-01-05 2:41 ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-05 13:45 ` Sven Mascheck via TUHS
2020-01-05 15:18 ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-05 21:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-06 13:53 ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-06 15:42 ` Brantley Coile
2020-01-06 15:46 ` arnold
2020-01-06 16:13 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-06 20:44 ` arnold
2020-01-06 20:51 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-01-06 21:32 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-06 21:39 ` Brad Spencer
2020-01-06 21:29 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-06 21:55 ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-06 22:22 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-06 22:52 ` Dan Cross
2020-01-07 0:50 ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-06 22:10 ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-04 22:44 ` markus schnalke
2020-01-04 23:01 ` Terry Jones
2020-01-04 22:22 ` Dave Horsfall
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-01-07 5:03 Brian Walden
2020-01-07 4:49 Brian Walden
2020-01-06 19:47 Doug McIlroy
2020-01-06 16:11 Brian Walden
2020-01-06 16:33 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-06 3:24 Brian Walden
2020-01-06 15:42 ` Richard Salz
2020-01-06 15:45 ` Brantley Coile
2020-01-03 12:45 markus schnalke
2020-01-03 14:00 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-01-03 17:03 ` Brian Zick
2020-01-03 17:18 ` markus schnalke
2020-01-04 0:53 ` Sven Mascheck via TUHS
2020-01-04 20:41 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-01-03 19:38 ` markus schnalke
2020-01-03 19:44 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-03 22:49 ` Michael Parson
2020-01-03 23:32 ` Dave Horsfall
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