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Discussion on: //TODO: Refactor me - A guide to measuring shortcuts

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Ben Sinclair •

In bash, you can assign defaults to variables, so you could use

KEYWORD=${1:-TODO}
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to make your script look for "TODO" or whatever you passed it as an argument.

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Pascal Thormeier •

Thank you for, I wasn't aware of that! Will add this to the article :)