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		celeritascelery on April 25, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shell Productivity Tips and Tricks No matter how many times I read articles like this I always manage to learn something new. For example this time I learned about brace expansion. Will save me retyping a bunch of commands with different text.

kreetx on April 25, 2020 [–]

Same here. I though I'd seen most of them by now but apparently not :)

echo ${MY_VAR:-some_default} is another class of useful functionality.

jldugger on April 25, 2020 | [–]

sadly, i know how that works only because it was the recommended long term fix from an RCA

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