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to: Ibanez
from: Corey
date: 2007-06-24 07:14:00
subject: !0 Linux Shell tricks

Re: !0 Linux Shell tricks
  By: Ibanez to Deuce on Sun Jun 24 2007 02:35 am

 >   Re: !0 Linux Shell tricks
 >   By: Deuce to Finnigann on Mon Jun 18 2007 01:19 am
 > 
 >  > For example, to create an empty file... rather than use
"touch empty" use
 >  > ":>empty" which works in every shell I've used,
not just bash.
 >  >
 >  > THAT'S a shell trick.  :-)
 > 
 > Works here on OS X. Both on my old box (Panther) and the new (Tiger).
 > 
 > Cool stuff. :D
 > 
 > 
 > - Ibanez
 > 
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 > 

thats because OSX is unix. acully BSD I think, it's called Darwin.

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