* Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org> [2006-08-17 17:24]: > * John Dalton <john.dalton@bigfoot.com> [2006-08-17 21:53]: > > > I don't really understand what > > : ${variable="value"} > > is doing. Can someone please explain it to me? > > I think that the colon in the command above is superfluous. No, I was wrong, the colon *_is_* necessary. Without it, the construct ${var=...} alone in a line will not work. -- Rafael