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Disk space (was: SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure)

Disk space (was: SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure)

Posted Jun 29, 2010 23:03 UTC (Tue) by peter-b (subscriber, #66996)
In reply to: Disk space (was: SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure) by intgr
Parent article: SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

So does POSIX sh. The following command is equivalent to true:

:

The following command is equivalent to false:

! :

I regularly use both when writing shell scripts.


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