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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting script to kill a pid giving error Post 302668249 by spynappels on Monday 9th of July 2012 04:33:25 AM
Old 07-09-2012
Or you could use double equals signs (==).

Here is a useful if reference for Bash, should be good for other shells too.
Introduction to if
 

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