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Re: bug batch
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Chris Down |
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Re: bug batch |
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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:07:43 +0800 |
On 13 Jun 2013 11:00, "Linda Walsh" <bash@tlinx.org> wrote:
> If you do it without the ':', it returns a false status.
> The colon doesn't seems to return true or false based on whether or not
> there was a syntactic error, but not for a command that runs normally and
returns
> any status.
: is just a noop that happens to return true. Any syntactic problems would
be raised by bash, not :.