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Interestingly, this is the second useful empty program I have seen. The other is /bin/true, as discussed at http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/ATT_Copyright_true
by CJefferson 13y ago
Interestingly, this is the second useful empty program I have seen. The other is /bin/true, as discussed at http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/ATT_Copyright_true.html http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/ATT_Copyright_true.html . That file is not quite empty, due to trying to comment and copyright an empty file!
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- timClicks 13y agoI love how Sun bumped the version number up to 1.6 in 1989 from the original AT&T code.
- jkn 13y agoI remember that two bugs were filed in Debian for this implementation of /bin/true (one for the slow execution and one for the memory use IIRC) but I cannot find them. Two bugs for 0 lines of code...
- fuzzix 13y agoThat would be GNU coreutils true, which is a little more complex. Some discussion of that over here : http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/t/3779.aspx http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/t/3779.aspx