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explain me this shell script ...
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currentSid=${TWO_TASK:-$ORACLE_SID}
echo $currentSid
this script returns value of ORACLE_SID but what i am not getting is
what is ":-" doing ??
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If the value of ${TWO_TASK} var is null then currentSid loads the value of ${ORACLE_SID}

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