On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Anonymous <swel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> writes: > >> On 7/7/2010 10:44 AM, Benedict Reuschling wrote: >>> Author: bcr (doc committer) >> >>> -for i >>> +while true; >>> do >> >> If this is intended to be an sh scripting example a better way to write >> that is: >> >> while : ; >> >> You can't guarantee that "true" will always be available and do what you >> expect, whereas the ':' operator is a shell builtin. > > Isn't `true' shell builtin as well? > > $ type true > true is a shell builtin
`true' is the new way. `:' is the old Bourne way as I've been told (but you're right, it is a built-in now as of at least 7.1 -- not sure about 6.x though)... -Garrett _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
