A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway(refp.se)

370 points by olexsmir 3 months ago | 155 comments

Blog post by Filip Roséen explaining the POSIX shell colon (no-op) builtin and practical tricks for using it in shell scripts.

A static site generator written in POSIX shell(aashvik.com)

61 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago | 33 comments

Unix shells are generally not viable access control mechanisms any more(utcc.utoronto.ca)

157 points by ingve 3 years ago | 126 comments

Wikipedia over DNS (2008)(dgl.cx)

61 points by pabs3 2 years ago | 12 comments

Debian GNU/Hurd 2023(lists.gnu.org)

176 points by jrepinc 3 years ago | 111 comments

A peculiarity of the GNU Coreutils version of 'test' and '['(utcc.utoronto.ca)

71 points by ingve 2 years ago | 42 comments