| #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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