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Old 11-21-2007
zedex zedex is offline
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explain me this shell script ...
Code:
currentSid=${TWO_TASK:-$ORACLE_SID}
echo $currentSid
this script returns value of ORACLE_SID but what i am not getting is
what is ":-" doing ??