Re: [CentOS] perl script part eval help please?

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Email Lists wrote:
> 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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