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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


  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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