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Old 11-14-2010
Nested if statements with && and ||?
Hello,

I'm a shell scripting noob and new to this forum as well. My question is can nested if statements be done with && and || instead and if it can be done can someone provide an example pls.

Thanks in advance for the help
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Old 11-14-2010
Code:
#!/bin/ksh93

a=1
b=2
c=3

(( a > b )) || {
   (( b < c )) && echo "true" || echo "false"
}
[[ a < b ]] && {
   [[ b < c ]] && echo "true" || echo "false"
}

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