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Re: running "Side effect" shell commands

1998-02-12 02:10:04
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 16:13:11 -0600 (CST), dattier(_at_)wwa(_dot_)com 
(David W. Tamkin) wrote:
Echo can also fail if the process lacks permission or opportunity to write
to stdout.  A more reliable choice is true(1); its purpose in life is to do
nothing but exit with status 0.  However, there is yet a better way to make

(The command : is a shell builtin which always returns true status.
Not exactly more readable than true(1), but if you need to have a slim
.procmailrc, this will save you one process.)

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