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<title>environment.d</title>
<literal><replaceable>KEY</replaceable>=<replaceable>VALUE</replaceable></literal> environment
variable assignments, separated by newlines. The right hand side of these assignments may
reference previously defined environment variables, using the <literal>${OTHER_KEY}</literal>
- and <literal>$OTHER_KEY</literal> format. No other elements of shell syntax are supported.
- </para>
+ and <literal>$OTHER_KEY</literal> format. It is also possible to use
+
+ <literal>${<replaceable>FOO</replaceable>:-<replaceable>DEFAULT_VALUE</replaceable>}</literal>
+ to expand in the same way as <literal>${<replaceable>FOO</replaceable>}</literal> unless the
+ expansion would be empty, in which case it expands to <replaceable>DEFAULT_VALUE</replaceable>,
+ and use
+ <literal>${<replaceable>FOO</replaceable>:+<replaceable>ALTERNATE_VALUE</replaceable>}</literal>
+ to expand to <replaceable>ALTERNATE_VALUE</replaceable> as long as
+ <literal>${<replaceable>FOO</replaceable>}</literal> would have expanded to a non-empty value.
+ No other elements of shell syntax are supported.</para>
<para>Each<replaceable>KEY</replaceable> must be a valid variable name. Empty lines
and lines beginning with the comment character <literal>#</literal> are ignored.</para>
<programlisting>
FOO_DEBUG=force-software-gl,log-verbose
PATH=/opt/foo/bin:$PATH
- LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/foo/lib
- XDG_DATA_DIRS=/opt/foo/share:${XDG_DATA_DIRS}
+ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/foo/lib${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
+ XDG_DATA_DIRS=/opt/foo/share:${XDG_DATA_DIRS:-/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/}
</programlisting>
</example>
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