For about the one bajillionth time, I troubleshot a problem in my
environment and it came back to some variable being undefined. Rather
than put explicit tests (strcmps and whatnot) for every variable I ever
set, I would be much happier if I could pass some sort of switch to
cfengine that would cause it to simply fail with a useful error message
whenever a variable went undefined rather than handling as a string that
happens to begin with '$'. It is far safer and more secure to abort
than to run commands with garbage inputs....
I'm quite comfortable using $(dollar) when I need to, so I can't think
of a downside of tis...
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Chip Seraphine
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