Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 14:49:09 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Benedict Reuschling <bcr@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r209772 - head/usr.bin/getopt Message-ID: <AANLkTimCpgzZ2lx0nONpvlWK09GCSqWpcKYlqsyQWVIR@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <86zky3897m.fsf@gmail.com> References: <201007071744.o67Hi9IU059462@svn.freebsd.org> <4C34BDF7.1020201__3943.14767695523$1278525000$gmane$org@FreeBSD.org> <86zky3897m.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com> wrote: > Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> writes: > >> On 7/7/2010 10:44 AM, Benedict Reuschling wrote: >>> Author: bcr (doc committer) >> >>> -for i >>> +while true; >>> =A0do >> >> If this is intended to be an sh scripting example a better way to write >> that is: >> >> while : ; >> >> You can't guarantee that "true" will always be available and do what you >> expect, whereas the ':' operator is a shell builtin. > > Isn't `true' shell builtin as well? > > =A0$ type true > =A0true 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
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