[TUHS] sh: cmd | >file

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sun Jan 5 07:11:18 AEST 2020


On Sun, 5 Jan 2020, Dave Horsfall wrote:

> The Unix philosophy, perhaps i.e. keep it simple?  Why have ":" (an 
> actual internal Shell command) when "" (the null command) will do the 
> job?

Also, remember that ":" was also used as a comment, before "#" was used.

-- Dave


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