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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 ...

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 ...