Merge pull request #458 from darh/master

Add example for default value

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/bash.html.markdown b/bash.html.markdown
index 1f1c32c0..815290dd 100644
--- a/bash.html.markdown
+++ b/bash.html.markdown
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ contributors:
     - ["Max Yankov", "https://github.com/golergka"]
     - ["Darren Lin", "https://github.com/CogBear"]
     - ["Alexandre Medeiros", "http://alemedeiros.sdf.org"]
+    - ["Denis Arh", "https://github.com/darh"]
 filename: LearnBash.sh
 ---
 
@@ -45,6 +46,10 @@ echo '$VARIABLE'
 echo ${VARIABLE/Some/A}
 # This will substitute the first occurance of "Some" with "A"
 
+# Default value for variable
+echo ${FOO:-"DefaultValueIfFOOIsMissingOrEmpty"}
+# This works for null (FOO=), empty string (FOO=""), zero (FOO=0) returns 0
+
 # Bultin variables:
 # There are some useful builtin variables, like
 echo "Last program return value: $?"