[TUHS] sh: cmd | >file

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sun Jan 5 07:39:12 AEST 2020


On Sat, Jan 4, 2020, 3:11 PM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

I thought it was a null label for a goto target... :)

Warner

-- Dave
>
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