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A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway. | Filip Roséen (refp.se)

submitted 2 weeks ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you find yourself reaching for this feature it probably means your Bash script has reached the level of complexity where you should absolutely not be using Bash. Use a real programming language instead.

[–] Vulwsztyn@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago

nah, a script with one param can totally be a bash script

[–] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 weeks ago

Filed away in my colon

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

You can write true instead of : and it will look better, true is an actual command.