13 Sep
2016
13 Sep
'16
2:12 a.m.
On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, markus schnalke wrote:
I think I've seen many eary (pre-Shebang and even
pre-#-comment) shell
scripts start with a colon. Is this only a coincidence with having a
comment at the beginning or was the colon character magic in some way?
Minor nit: ":" is not precisely a comment, but an empty label. Ano no,
it's not particularly magic in any way, as I recall.
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