On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, gerard robin wrote: gr> hello, gr> sorry for this silly question, gr> gr> "pon" is a very simple script: gr> gr> exec /usr/sbin/pppd call ${1;-provider} gr> gr> I think that the script : gr> gr> exec /usr/sbin/pppd call provider gr> gr> would work too. gr> gr> can someone explain me the meaning of ${1;-provider}
if the first argument is not null, the argument is used rather than 'provider' Dingo. ).|.( '.'___'.' ' '(>~<)' ' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-ooO-=(_)=-Ooo-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Petr [Dingo] Dvorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coder - Purple Dragon MUD pdragon.org port 3333 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-[ 369D93 ]=-=- Debian version 2.2.18pre21, up 11:42, 7 users, load average: 1.00 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-