The last of the basic building blocks of shell scripting are conditional statements, allowing you to decide programmatically whether to execute a block of statements based on a logical test, and flow ...

A conditional statement in English is one that begins with a hypothesis, and follows with a conclusion. Often, we think of these as “if/then” statements. Examples: “If you think you make more money ...

Last month we started out easy, with a discussion of file redirection. This month I continue to talk about the basic building blocks of shell script programming by exploring pipes, then we jump into ...

If your customer does this… then you send that. The basic “If … then …” conditional statement we see in contracts and computer programming can be applied ...