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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish • 2 months ago

Like programming in bash

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Like programming in bash

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish • 2 months ago
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  • @Tangentism@lemmy.ml
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    3•2 months ago

    You could write that as 1 line:

    [ -z "$var" ] && echo "empty" || echo "no it aint"

    • Oriel Jutty :hhHHHAAAH:
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      6•2 months ago

      Incidentally, this is an anti-pattern: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#cmd1_.26.26_cmd2_.7C.7C_cmd3

    • Oriel Jutty :hhHHHAAAH:
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      @Tangentism @Ephera Did you mean:

      echo "${var:-empty}${var:+no it aint}"
      

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