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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Why is it always false? Post 302191425 by JeffR on Friday 2nd of May 2008 02:08:38 PM
Old 05-02-2008
Question Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
I had the 'then', just forgot to put it in the pseudo-code, but the semi-colon was the key. Thanks so much! I've wrestled with this for days.

Is the semi-colon always needed in an if statement? I've been reading O'Reilly's Classic Shell Scripting and it doesn't mention the semi-colon at all. What gives?
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

false

FALSE(1)							   User Commands							  FALSE(1)

NAME

       false - do nothing, unsuccessfully

SYNOPSIS

       false [ignored command line arguments]
       false OPTION

DESCRIPTION

       Exit with a status code indicating failure.

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

       NOTE: your shell may have its own version of false, which usually supersedes the version described here.  Please refer to your shell's doc-
       umentation for details about the options it supports.

AUTHOR

       Written by Jim Meyering.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report false bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       The full documentation for false is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and false programs are properly installed  at  your  site,
       the command

	      info coreutils 'false invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 7.1						     July 2010								  FALSE(1)
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