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Re: [Help-bash] Chain/cascade assignment
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] Chain/cascade assignment |
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Mon, 22 Feb 2016 09:09:53 -0500 |
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On 2/21/16 3:35 PM, Илюшкин Никита wrote:
> Hello,
>
> search results and simple test in CLI show, that there is no chain
> assignment in bash like var=var=val. I wonder why and want to propose this
> as a feature (as far this assign construction seems common in other
> languages).
The shell is not that kind of expression language. Assignment statements
have a return status, not a value that can be used as another value to
assign.
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