if statement

[Raseel]

On 20-Aug-2009, at 21:59, Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am having difficulty with an if statement. Here it is -
>
> # load the sleep interval in seconds from the command line.
> interval=$2;
>    # if specified interval in seconds is less than 200 or empty, set  
> it
> to the default of 300 seconds
>    if  [ $interval == "" ]
>
>        then

Shouldn't this statement be something like :

If [ $interval == "" ] ; then

Aren't you missing the semi-colon here ?

Thanks,
Raseel