=
if trying to assign a value (or for empty string, use var=""
... ).
# I want programs to show text in Dutch! LANGUAGE= nl
# I want to run the nl command with English error messages! LANGUAGE= nl
# I want programs to show text in Dutch! LANGUAGE=nl
# I want to run the nl command with English error messages! LANGUAGE='' nl
It's easy to think that LANGUAGE= nl
would assign "nl"
to the variable LANGUAGE
. It doesn't.
Instead, it runs nl
(the "number lines" command) and sets LANGUAGE
to an empty string in its environment.
Since trying to assign values this way is a common mistake, ShellCheck warns about it and asks you to be explicit when assigning empty strings (except for IFS
, due to the common IFS= read ..
idiom).
If you're familiar with this behavior and feel that the explicit version is unnecessary, you can ignore it.
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Shell-Parameters.html https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#foo_.3D_bar
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