":" as a csh command

[Chris Torek]

In article <666 at cullvax.UUCP>, drw at cullvax.UUCP (Dale Worley) writes:
>What does the ':' command to csh do?

It serves to hold a label.  The script

	foo:
	echo foo
	goto foo

prints an infinite number of `foo's.

Note that this is more or less the inverse of the V6 shell's labels:

	: foo
	echo foo
	goto foo

(In the V6 shell, `goto' was a separate program!)
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