6 Dec
2017
6 Dec
'17
12:19 p.m.
On Tue, 5 Dec 2017, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
"#" as the root prompt predates # as the
comment in the Bourne shell,
not to mention predating copy/paste entirely. (My understanding is that
the do-nothing command, ":" was used for comments. Talk about
minimalist!)
And as a label for the dreaded "goto" command; it was a while before I
realised that ":" in and of itself did bugger-all...
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."