I never use it either, I was just curious. My boss had been using it in his scripts and when I had him take it out, his scripts stopped working.
I think Raymondo answered my question, explaining that it simply acts as a new line when you use the syntax: if [ test ] ; then rather than if [ test ] then Dave -----Original Message----- From: R P Herrold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 12:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Bash script help ? On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, David Simmons wrote: > I have noticed in this thread that everyone is putting a ";" after > their > tests: if [ test ] ; and for [ test ] ; > > When is the ";" required or is it always required after the test in a > conditional statement? Ehhh? Not all people do. I never do: [herrold@ftp bin]$ grep [[] ORC* ORCcodingStd: [ -e /etc/PUID ] && head -1 /etc/PUID | awk {'print $2'} ORCcodingStd:[ -e /etc/ORC/config ] && { ORCcodingStd:[ -e /etc/ORC/siteoptions ] && . /etc/ORC/siteoptions ORCcodingStd:# [ -e $PROGPID ] && rm $PROGPID ORCcodingStd:[ -f /tmp/ORCdebug ] && { ORCcodingStd:[ "x$1" = "x-d" ] && { The multiline && construct looks like: [ "x$1" = "x-d" ] && { echo "arg one is and option $1 for debugging" DEBUG="y" export DEBUG } see also our presentation outline notes at: http://www.colug.net/notes/0012mtg/COLUG-0012.html - Russ Herrold -- end ======================================+ .-- -... ---.. ... -.- -.-- | Copyright (C) 2003 R P Herrold | Owl River Company [EMAIL PROTECTED] NIC: RPH5 (US) | "The World is Open to Linux (tm)" My words are not deathless prose, | Open Source LINUX solutions ... but they are mine. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Columbus, OH gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 0x7BFB98B9 gpg --list-keys 2> /dev/null | grep 7BFB98B9 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
