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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell scripting syntax error in if then else Post 303019803 by RudiC on Saturday 7th of July 2018 03:02:15 AM
Old 07-07-2018
Please become accustomed to provide decent context info of your problem.

It is always helpful to carefully and detailedly phrase a request, and to support it with system info like OS and shell, related environment (variables, options), preferred tools, adequate (representative) sample input and desired output data and the logics connecting the two including your own attempts at a solution, and, if existent, system (error) messages verbatim, to avoid ambiguities and keep people from guessing.


Having said this, there's a semicolon missing in front of the if.
Here you can see how beneficial it is to wite code in a structured way, indenting blocks belonging together, in contrast to spaghetti one liners.
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TEXINFO(5)							File Formats Manual							TEXINFO(5)

NAME
texinfo - software documentation system DESCRIPTION
Texinfo is a documentation system that uses a single source file to produce both online information and printed output. It is primarily designed for writing software manuals. For a full description of the Texinfo language and associated tools, please see the Texinfo manual (written in Texinfo itself). Most likely, running this command from your shell: info texinfo or this key sequence from inside Emacs: M-x info RET m texinfo RET will get you there. AVAILABILITY
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/ or any GNU mirror site. REPORTING BUGS
Please send bug reports to bug-texinfo@gnu.org, general questions and discussion to help-texinfo@gnu.org. SEE ALSO
info(1), install-info(1), makeinfo(1), texi2dvi(1), texindex(1). emacs(1), tex(1). info(5). FSF
GNU Texinfo TEXINFO(5)
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