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Top Forums Programming Shell script - if statements dont work Post 302987164 by rbatte1 on Tuesday 6th of December 2016 08:50:42 AM
Old 12-06-2016
Thank you for this. Can you run it again with bash -x your_script and paste the output. It will look messy, but it will show what your code is actually trying to do and what conditions are met in the if statements.



Thanks again,
Robin
 

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