12 Sep
2016
12 Sep
'16
2:50 p.m.
Tony Finch <dot(a)dotat.at> wrote:
Joerg Schilling <schily(a)schily.net> wrote:
You are missinterpeting things.
The colon in line one as a hint to a modified csh to call the Bourne Shell
first appeared around 1983.
Jörg
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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)