From: Chet Ramey <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: parameter expansion with `:` does not work Date: 08/07/2021 00:14:36 Europe/Paris Cc: [email protected]
On 7/7/21 6:12 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > : ${fltype:-"texi,org"} # alternative to `fltype=` > > > I'm not sure why you think that's an alternative. Maybe you meant > ${fltype:="texi,org"}? > > It is supposed to be built into bash so a new process is not created. > Perhaps not in Gnu Bash? > What are you talking about? What do you think you're saying? Have read it somewhere. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU [email protected] http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
