12 Sep
2016
12 Sep
'16
3:25 p.m.
markus schnalke <meillo(a)marmaro.de> 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?
The colon was introduced by AT&T around 1983. It was used for Bourne Shell
scripts. Some of these scripts made it into SVr4 and caused problems with
non-Bourne compatible other shells.
Jörg
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