On 07/02/2011 12:45 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > I seem to forget my shell programming > but is the following statement valid? > > ($foo==0)?foo=1:foo=0 > > I thought it was called the tristate conditional > operator but in any case I could not find it in > google. You need to enclose the entire expression in double parentheses to make bash parse it as an expression. Plus, your syntax is slightly wrong: ((($foo==0)?foo=1:0)) or, since within an expression the '$' to reference a variable is optional: (((foo==0)?foo=1:0)) and, if you want to insert the result directly into a command line: echo $(((foo==0)?1:0)) or echo $(((foo==0)?foo=1:0)) -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines