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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting If statement is not working in KSH Post 302495209 by methyl on Wednesday 9th of February 2011 04:29:12 PM
Old 02-09-2011
In ksh the bracket type is significant and important. It distinguishes between a "Test" and a "Conditional Expression". There is some common syntax but as soon as you get into boolean expressions they are quite different.

Code:
[[ conditional expression ]]
[ test ]

 

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LEARN ABOUT MINIX

let

let(1)                                                             User Commands                                                            let(1)

NAME

       let - shell built-in function to evaluate one or more arithmetic expressions

SYNOPSIS

   ksh
       let arg...

DESCRIPTION

   ksh
       Each arg is a separate "arithmetic expression" to be evaluated.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0        The value of the last expression is non-zero.

       1        The value of the last expression is zero.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       ksh(1), set(1), typeset(1), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10                                                          15 Apr 1994                                                             let(1)
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