Uses of : (no effect)
#to officially do nothing | |
: | |
#there you go, this could be used when writing or troubleshooting a script and you have only a single item in an if clause | |
if [ "${this}" == "that" ]; then | |
#actually not sure what to do here, let's do nothing | |
: | |
else | |
echo "This else, I'll do" | |
fi | |
# A novel use I found is to redirect a heredoc into : | |
# jbeck at Extensis does this in the UTC removal script | |
#https://support.extensis.com/Support/58278/58411/en-US/Article/View/1004/Uninstalling-Universal-Type-Client-for-Mac-OS/64 | |
: <<COMMENTBLOCK | |
[ ] 2016-0324: enclose me; love me. i am a block of comments | |
COMMENTBLOCK | |
#and replacing the delimiter COMMENTBLOCK allows for a nice header | |
: << NOTES | |
Some notes about this script | |
NOTES |
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