Can we use bash's conditional operator with assignment operators after colon?
Bash reference manual explains the arithmetic operators as follows.
- conditional operator
expr ? expr : expr - assignment
= *= /= %= += -= <<= >>= &= ^= |=
FisrtFirst, this code seems to work well.:
a=1; ((a? b=1 : 2 )) #seems to work
a=1; ((a? b=1 : 2 )) #seems to work
But when I use assignment operators after :, I got 'attempted assignment to non-variable' error.:
a=1; ((a? b=1 : c=1)) #attempted assignment to non-variable error
a=1; ((a? b=1 : c=1)) #attempted assignment to non-variable error
Why can we use only assignment operators before colon?
