svn commit: r209772 - head/usr.bin/getopt

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jul 7 17:48:42 UTC 2010


On 7/7/2010 10:44 AM, Benedict Reuschling wrote:
> Author: bcr (doc committer)

> -for i
> +while true;
>  do

If this is intended to be an sh scripting example a better way to write
that is:

while : ;

You can't guarantee that "true" will always be available and do what you
expect, whereas the ':' operator is a shell builtin.


hth,

Doug

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