>From: Lawrence Velázquez <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: parameter expansion with `:` does not work
>Date: 08/07/2021 05:23:48 Europe/Paris
>Cc: [email protected]

>> On Jul 7, 2021, at 10:38 PM, [email protected] 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}" 

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