Shell Scripting Part 3: Decision Control Structures in Shell Scripts | Linux Today

Shell Scripting Part 3: Decision Control Structures in Shell Scripts

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 5, 2015

We already covered the basics of shell scripting such as accepting inputs, process data through arithmetic operations and generating and displaying output in the previous parts of this tutorial (part 1 and part 2). In this part, we will go deeper to a more advanced topic in a programming language — making decisions in a program, but this time we will do it using bash shell.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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