>> How can LINKIT only be ":"?
> 
> : is shell builtin, try 'type :'. It just expands arguments and returns
> true. (so that ': $(touch a)' creates file a). To be sure I checked it
> for sh, bash and ksh on Solaris.

I would've thought the confusion wasn't over what ':' did, but over why, if you 
can't link, you would do nothing rather than copy instead, or provide some 
other 
kind of second-best mechanism that's...well...better than nothing.

Ben.



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