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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting syntax error on if statement Post 302321350 by durden_tyler on Sunday 31st of May 2009 11:58:00 PM
Old 06-01-2009
Just a short note besides what has been mentioned in the other posts:

- "then" can be written in the next line, like it is in your code
- add "fi" at the very end to complete the syntax

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