Solaris™ 8 Advanced System Administrator's Guide, Third Edition

Testing for Conditions

When writing scripts, you frequently want to test for conditions. The simplest test is to determine whether a condition is true or false. If the expression is true, execute any subsequent commands (shown indented in Table 90); if not, continue with the script. Table 90 shows the syntax for conditional tests.

Table 90. Conditional Test Syntax

Bourne and Korn Shells	C Shell
if command then commands elif command commands else commands fi	if (cond) then commands else if (cond) then commands else commands endif

if-then-else-elif

For the Bourne and Korn shells, use the if-then-else-elif-fi syntax to test for conditions. You can follow the if statement with the test command and its argument(s) to test for conditions. ...