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by dolmen
844 days ago
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> This works because the `:` is a way to set a label, and it implicitly returns 0. Nope. Unix shell doesn't have labels (are you mixing with DOS batch files?). : is a shell builtin that does nothing. In the bash man page, look for the first entry of the "SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS" section.
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