maillog: 04/02/2005-00:00:41(+0000): Ciaran McCreesh types > Hi people, > > Just a note on how to do if / then / else blocks properly in bash... The > following style *won't* work, so don't do anything daft like committing > it to eutils.eclass without testing and h0rking half the tree, okay? > > if foo ; then > # do nothing > else > echo "hi" > fi > > You have to have a real genuine statement inside each block. Otherwise, > bash will cry. > > If The Doc existed, which it doesn't, and it wasn't in super-early-draft > state, which it would be if it did exist, you'd be able to see this at > [1]. As it is, you'll just have to read the bash docs. > > [1]: > http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/docs/IGNORE_the-doc/#multiple-selection
You could mention that a ":" would do the trick:
if foo ; then
# do nothing
:
else
echo "hi"
fi
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