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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Beginner: script headache Post 302983287 by Don Cragun on Sunday 9th of October 2016 10:16:23 PM
Old 10-09-2016
You are having a problem with the precedence of operators. In that expression, the AND operator has higher precedence than the OR operator, so the expression in your if statement is evaluated as though you had written:
Code:
if [[ $a == "A" || ( $a == "a" && $b == "B" ) || $b == "b" ]]

To get what I think you were trying to do, you want something more like:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
a=$1
b=$2

if [[ ( $a == "A" || $a == "a" ) && ( $b == "B" || $b == "b" ) ]]
then
        echo "Conditions are met"
else
        echo "Conditions are not met"
fi

 

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