Package: bash
Version: 4.2-2
Severity: normal
The man page description of ${parameter:-word},
${parameter:=word},i and ${parameter:?word}, etc
does not mention that ":" is optional (at least in scripts).
: does not seem to be optional at a bash prompt, so I am uncertain
about the intended behaviour. But many sh scripts use the form
with the omitted ":". Some oldish documentation says that the
parameter is only tested for existence when ":" is omitted.
It does seem to be optional with scripts starting with
#!/bin/sh and #!/bin/bash.
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