From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 13 23:22:45 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id XAA01598 for current-outgoing; Sun, 13 Aug 1995 23:22:45 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA01582 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 1995 23:22:26 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA18243; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 08:22:14 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA08165 for current@freebsd.org; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 08:22:14 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA11452 for current@freebsd.org; Mon, 14 Aug 1995 08:17:41 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508140617.IAA11452@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: make(1) extension for SHELL COMMANDS To: current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 08:17:40 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508132144.XAA25996@localhost> from "Wolfram Schneider" at Aug 13, 95 11:44:06 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 665 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Wolfram Schneider wrote: > > > from new manpage: > If the first or first three characters of the command line are `@' and/or > `-', and/or `!', the command is treated specially. A `@' causes the com- > mand not to be echoed before it is executed. A `-' causes any non-zero > exit status of the command line to be ignored. A `!' causes make to use > exec and not /bin/sh. This makes live with quotes much easier. Just curious: does this have any traditional counterpart in other systems? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)