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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Dot operator and space, Parameter not set Post 302601828 by ysrini on Friday 24th of February 2012 01:02:14 PM
Old 02-24-2012
I resolved this by using ':-' after the variable name
Code:
if [ -z "${VAR_1:-}" ]
then
   echo "is empty"
fi 
echo "done"

This causes the shell not to exit if the variable is not set or null

Thanks,
-srinivas
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NAME

       set_color - set_color - set the terminal color

set_color - set the terminal color
   Synopsis
       set_color [-v --version] [-h --help] [-b --background COLOR] [COLOR]

   Description
       Change the foreground and/or background color of the terminal. COLOR is one of black, red, green, brown, yellow, blue, magenta, purple,
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