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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 13:24:03 -0500
From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.ORG>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Brokenness: : ${TMPDIR:-/tmp} results in empty TMPDIR variable
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On Sunday, February 25, 2001 13:43:11 +0100, Andreas Klemm 
<andreas@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
+-----
| Another -STABLE problem:
|
| : ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}
|
| The variable stays empty.
+--->8

It should; the correct idiom is

: ${TMPDIR:=/tmp}

-- 
brandon s. allbery     [os/2][linux][solaris][japh]   allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator        [WAY too many hats]         allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering                                   KF8NH
carnegie mellon university     ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls]


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