Re: pon

["Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak" <dingo@texoma.net>]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, gerard robin wrote:

gr> hello,
gr> sorry for this silly question,
gr> 
gr> "pon"  is a very simple script:
gr> 
gr> exec /usr/sbin/pppd call ${1;-provider}
gr> 
gr> I think that the script :
gr> 
gr> exec /usr/sbin/pppd call provider
gr> 
gr> would work too.
gr> 
gr> can someone explain me the meaning of  ${1;-provider}

if the first argument is not null, the argument is used rather than 'provider'


                                                Dingo.


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