Tag Archive for ‘variable’ at Jompeich d’er Bisente

Tag Archive for 'variable'

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on Marzo 6, 2008

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It’s possible to assign a default value to a variable in case it isn’t already defined. The syntax is:

FOO=${FOO:=bar}

Example:

$ FOO=${FOO:=bar}
$ echo $FOO
bar

$ BAR=test
$ BAR=${BAR:=foo}
$ echo $BAR
test