From: "Lawrence Velázquez" <larryv@zsh.org>
To: david <zsh@rayninfo.co.uk>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: if (()){}else{} documented?
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 11:33:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e9997f9f-59bd-4619-ae20-d6e0e4c6ccdb@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1154b0e1-e5ad-70be-f620-1368c86f12ed@rayninfo.co.uk>
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021, at 10:40 AM, david wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have been in a world of pain playing around with compound control
> structures
>
> e.g. this only works as a single line (is that true?)
>
> if (( $1 == 4 )) { echo good } else { echo bad }
>
> just wondered where I could read up on this?
The zshmisc(1) man page, section "ALTERNATE FORMS FOR COMPLEX
COMMANDS". It assumes familiarity with lists, so probably also
look at "SIMPLE COMMANDS & PIPELINES".
--
vq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-20 15:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-20 14:40 david
2021-04-20 15:19 ` Marc Chantreux
2021-04-20 15:28 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-04-20 15:32 ` Marc Chantreux
2021-04-21 8:46 ` zzapper
2021-04-21 10:41 ` Marc Chantreux
2021-04-21 12:32 ` zzapper
2021-04-21 14:59 ` Marc Chantreux
2021-04-21 15:01 ` Marc Chantreux
2021-04-21 13:57 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-04-20 15:33 ` Lawrence Velázquez [this message]
2021-04-21 9:16 ` zzapper
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