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    ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months ago

    Like programming in bash

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    Like programming in bash

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    ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months ago
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      You could write that as 1 line:

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

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

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        @Tangentism @Ephera Did you mean:

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

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