>From: Lawrence Velázquez <v...@larryv.me>
>To: lisa-as...@perso.be
>Subject: Re: parameter expansion with `:` does not work
>Date: 08/07/2021 05:23:48 Europe/Paris
>Cc: bug-bash@gnu.org
>> On Jul 7, 2021, at 10:38 PM, lisa-as...@perso.be wrote:
>>
>> Correct. How do others customarily use `${fdir:=$PWD}` ?
>The common idiom is
>: "${fdir:=$PWD}"
>The ':' utility is used because it does nothing, but its arguments
>are expanded as usual.
I understand Lawrence. This got me back to the `:` command I had referred to
in my post.
Thusly I will be using it
: "${fdir:=$PWD}"
