OT: stupid sh scripting question

[Kevin Downey]

On 1/3/07, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 03:07:43PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
>
> >
> >       This is probably staring me in the face:
> >
> > if [ ! -d "foo"]
> >       then mkdir foo
> > fi
> >
> >       gives me:
> >
> > [: missing ]
>
> It is probably not telling you ':' missing but ';' missing.
> It goes after the ']', plus I think the space before ']' is required.
>
> ////jerry
>
> >
> >       Looking at rc.subr I see:
> >
> > if [ ! -d "$linkdir" ]; then
> >            warn "$_me: the directory $linkdir does not exist."
> >            return 1
> > fi
> >
> >
> >                                       Robert Huff
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the ';' is not required if the 'then' statement is not on the same
line as the 'if' statement.

kpd at zifnab ~% sh
$ if echo foo
> then
> echo bar
> fi
foo
bar


sorry for the repeat jerry
 (gmail's reply defaults to replying to just the sender and not everyone)


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