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> Greetings
>
> Im am not a perl programmer yet I am trying to learn and am debugging
> someone elses perl run script for use on a centos production box I have and
> I came across this
>
> elif [ -z "${SMTP_CDB:-}" ]
That's not perl, that is part of a shell script.
${SMTP_CDB:-} returns an empty string if the Variable $SMTP_CDB is not
set. See "Parameter Expansion" in the manual page of bash. And "test -z
$string" returns true, if $string is empty.
Regards,
Ralph
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