"New"? That's how we old-timers used to have to comment shell scripts before
"#" comments were added to /bin/sh.
The reason it's not used as a generic command substituter (usually in
Makefiles) is that it's a shell builtin. make execvp's commands, so : would
fail unless you had in the command some kind of marker that told make to pass
the command to sh instead (in older/non-GNU make, this mostly means
wildcards).
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system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
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