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From: mrm@sceard.Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How do I ask "if NOT" in shell?
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Date: 24 Oct 89 15:14:01 GMT
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>kirkaas@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (paul kirkaas) writes:
>How can one say "if not" in a shellscript; that is, execute the body of
>the "then" only if the argument of "if" returns a non-zero exit status?

Might be a Good Thing to look up how && and || work, especially with { and }.
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