Thread: What is fi or "the fi command" in Linux/Unix?
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GeraldKo is offline GeraldKo
2008-04-30 , 19:27
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Originally Posted by penguinbait View Post
As mentioned "fi" is the end of a "if" statement

if something happens
then
do something
else
dont do something
fi
If you look at question and answer #1 in this post, ... well, it seems to me that it went

(A) If ... fi; else ... fi

rather than

(B) If ... else ... fi

which is what I'd have expected. But when I went with (B) (that is, without the first fi), the script didn't work. With (A) I had success. Is there an "implicit if" in "RC=$?" or something like that?
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