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Is it recommended to use shell’s : null command on supposedly portable scripts? Does it cope with csh, zsh, tcsh and whatever shell it may exist around there?
Yes. It’s the standard null utility. Reference: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/colon.html