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Date:      Mon, 14 Aug 1995 08:17:40 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make(1) extension for SHELL COMMANDS
Message-ID:  <199508140617.IAA11452@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199508132144.XAA25996@localhost> from "Wolfram Schneider" at Aug 13, 95 11:44:06 pm

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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. ;-)



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