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Observed mentions: 2018-03-01 19:54:22 UTC to 2022-02-03 01:05:05 UTC.

012018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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Arnavion·Feb 3, 2022
Maybe. The motivation may have been lost to history. bash added `:` to the list of completion word break characters with bash 2.0 [1][2]. Bash 2.0 was released in 1996. NTFS-3G started in 2006 but it was "forked from the Linux-NTFS", and I can't find any history for this project. NTFS itself was released in 1993. HFS+ seems to have been released in 1998, so it can't be the reason. But even regular HFS had resource forks and it was released in 1985. No idea where to look in ksh's source. [1]: https://github.com/bminor/bash/commit/ccc6cda312fea9f0468ee6... [2]: https://github.com/bminor/bash/commit/ccc6cda312fea9f0468ee6...
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