On 24/07/2024 20:50, Greg Wooledge wrote:
Everyone skips over the sentence that begins with "Omitting the colon".
Every time we try to tell Chet, "Hey, man, please add examples that
show BOTH syntaxes", he blows us off, because this is the way POSIX
documents it. If it's good enough for POSIX,
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 09:50:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
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> Everyone skips over the sentence that begins with "Omitting the colon".
Thanks for this one. I know /I/ did for long enough.
Greg, this place would be a lot less helpful...
> Every time we try to tell Chet, "Hey, man, pleas
Hi,
i wrote:
> > maybe i am just too dumb to read the manual, or maybe i made an
> > archeological discovery in the shells we use.
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Everyone skips over the sentence that begins with "Omitting the colon".
Oh well. Too dumb and not alone.
I did read the sentence immediately
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 15:33:11 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> GRUB's test scripts often show this gesture
>
> : "${TMPDIR=/tmp}"
>
> Well known and described is
> ${X:=Y}
> which assigns a default value to variable X if it is empty (man bash
> says: "If [...] unset or null").
> Also known a
Hi,
maybe i am just too dumb to read the manual, or maybe i made an
archeological discovery in the shells we use.
I came to a strange shell gesture which i find neither in man bash nor
man dash. Nevertheless it works the same in both shells.
GRUB's test scripts often show this gesture
: "${TM
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