>From: Dennis Williamson <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: parameter expansion with `:` does not work >Date: 08/07/2021 00:28:33 Europe/Paris >Cc: bug-bash <[email protected]>
>On Wed, Jul 7, 2021, 4:50 PM <[email protected]> wrote: >Have noticed that parameter expansion with `:` does not work >: ${fltype:-"texi,org"} # alternative to `fltype=` >$ unset foo >$ : ${foo:-bar} >$ echo "$foo" >$ : ${foo:=bar} >$ echo "$foo" >bar >The first form is a substitution and the second form is an assignment. So you used `:` at the beginning and it worked?
