SHELL SCRIPTING
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The Shell Colon Does Nothing. You Should Use It Anyway.The colon builtin is the shell's most underrated command - it evaluates arguments, discards results, and unlocks parameter expansion tricks that simplify scripts. HN debate: readable or cryptic?
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