On 11/2/17 7:03 AM, Michael F Gordon wrote:
> Can anyone explain the following?
>
> tla19> set|grep FOOFOOFOO
> tla19> if [ -d ${FOOFOOFOO:=""} ]; then echo YES;fi
> YES
> tla19> echo $BASH_VERSION
> 4.4.12(1)-release
Greg is correct. This expands to [ -d ], which is true. There was an
expansion bug in bash-4.1 that caused ${FOOFOOFOO:=""} to expand to the
empty string, but that was fixed almost eight years ago as the result of
http://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=221
Chet
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