What does this statement do?

wilsonee · June 27, 2012, 1:51am

Hi,

What does this line do in bash?

MAILDROP_GROUP="@@";

Is this just assigning a string? or does it have special meaning?
Thanks in advance.

Wilsonee

itkamaraj · June 27, 2012, 1:53am

why dont you try it in your system ?

 
bash-3.2$ MAILDROP_GROUP="@@";
bash-3.2$ echo $MAILDROP_GROUP
@@

pamu · June 27, 2012, 1:54am

 MAILDROP_GROUP="@@";
$ echo $MAILDROP_GROUP
@@

Scrutinizer · June 27, 2012, 1:56am

It is just assigning a string. You could even leave out the quotes:

MAILDROP_GROUP=@@