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Bash conditional statements

Explore Bash conditional statements to control the execution flow in your scripts. Understand integer comparisons, file test operators, and case statements, enabling you to write more versatile and efficient Bash scripts for data science tasks.

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Bash if-else

To compare integers we use can the following operators:

Operator Description
-eq Equal to
-ne Not equal to
-gt Greater than
-ge Greater than OR equal to
-lt less than
-le less than OR equal to

The following example shows how to use the number comparison operators in an if statement.

Shell
bash bash-ifelse.sh 0

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