12 Sep
2016
12 Sep
'16
6:41 p.m.
Joerg Schilling <schily(a)schily.net> wrote:
The colon was introduced by AT&T around 1983.
It's a builtin in the v7 Bourne shell - see SYSNULL in msg.c (which
has the command name table) and in xec.c (which has the implementation)
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Trees/V7/usr/src/cmd/sh/
Tony.
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