Forcing /bin/sh in a script under V/386 3.2 Korn shell
Guy Harris
guy at auspex.auspex.com
Fri Jul 21 04:35:46 AEST 1989
>While this is true, it can be misleading. In particular, the line
>
> cat file file2 > file3
>
>isn't commented out by prefixing it with a colon. Cat doesn't run,
>but redirection *will* take place and file3 will be truncated.
Furthermore, it means that the arguments to the ":" command are parsed,
so the shell won't do what you want if you try something like
:
: This isn't a comment
:
(unless you want something rather perverse).
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