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bioinformatics_guy 03-27-2009 05:22 AM
3 point if/else statement
 
In bash, the only if/else structure I can find is

if [ ] ; then


else


fi

What if I have three things I want to check, such as:

if [ ] ; then


elsif [ ] ; then


else

fi

Does this structure exist or do I just need to do some large nested if/else loop

bioinformatics_guy 03-27-2009 05:28 AM
Found it:

elif

JulianTosh 03-27-2009 05:29 AM
Try the case statement:

http://www.softpanorama.org/Scriptin...tatement.shtml

Code:
case expression in
    pattern1 )
        statements ;;
    pattern2 )
        statements ;;
    ...
esac


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