The last of the basic building blocks of shell scripting are conditional statements, allowing you to decide programmatically whether to execute a block of statements based on a logical test, and flow ...

A conditional statement in English is one that begins with a hypothesis, and follows with a conclusion. Often, we think of these as “if/then” statements. Examples: “If you think you make more money ...

If your customer does this… then you send that. The basic “If … then …” conditional statement we see in contracts and computer programming can be applied ...

Last month we started out easy, with a discussion of file redirection. This month I continue to talk about the basic building blocks of shell script programming by exploring pipes, then we jump into ...