* 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.
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Rafael