Re: Simplify an IF statement to one line

Stephane CHAZELAS wrote:

That's ksh93/bash specific syntax (with an error has you need to
quote the ${...} above).

Also, it's not an error to leave out the quotation marks. It *would* be an
error had I used it in a context which depended upon such. Null string or no
string is still an error to "source".
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