if statement

[Karl F. Larsen]

Raseel wrote:
> 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
>
>   
    I got the pdf of Advanced Bash-Scripting and are doing the first few 
examples. I suggest you get it and do the same. Very quick education on 
bash script writing.

Karl