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# 1  
Old 10-01-2007
Tools problem with nested if stament

hi everybody:
could anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong. I've tried to nest if staments like this:

Code:
if [condition1]; then
   if [condition2];then
        if [condition3];then
             commands
       else
             commands
       fi
   elif [condition4];then
             commands
   fi      
fi

and the last fi (end stament ) appears like missing.
[: 271: missing ] -----> this is the code line
Thanks in advance. Smilie
tonet
# 2  
Old 10-01-2007
put whitespace between [ and condition1, also between condition1 and ]. Do this for all conditional statements and check again.
# 3  
Old 10-01-2007
problem with nested if stament

Actually I've done all brackets with spaces but into one those I forget it.Smilie
Thanks. Smilie
tonet
# 4  
Old 10-03-2007
shall we call this Shell trap for the unwary?
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