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

[Anonymous]

Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> writes:

> 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.

Isn't `true' shell builtin as well?

  $ type true
  true is a shell builtin