Mastering Bash

What if...else

Let's take one of our previous examples and examine it in more detail:

#!/bin/bash    echo "Hello user, please give me a number between 10 and 20: "read user_inputif [ ${user_input} -ge 10 ] && [ ${user_input} -le 20 ]thenecho "Great! The number ${user_input} is what we were looking for!"elseecho "The number ${user_input} is not what we are looking for..."fi  

As an exercise to ease its comprehension, let's try to write it in natural language:

1. Print a greeting asking for a number between 10 and 20
2. Read the user input and save it in the user_input variable
3. If the value of user_input is greater or equal to 10 and the value of user_input is less or equal to 2, then print an OK message to the user

4. Otherwise (else), if the conditions ...