> On Dec 12, 2020, at 5:51 PM, Léa Gris wrote:
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> It raises multiple observations:
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> - I thought the placeholder variable _ was a sinkhole like /dev/null.
It is not. I expect you've been deceived by countless examples like:
read var1 var2 _ var3 _ var4
Your three non-dash shells explic
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| - I thought the placeholder variable _
It isn't really a placeholder variable, it is a magic piece of sh*t
invented by ksh (initially) to fill the role that !$ had in csh
(bash has !$
