Skip to content

[bash/en] fix inaccurate description re [[ ... && ... || ... ]] and examples to match it; change while to use [[ ... ]] for consistency #5368

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
wants to merge 2 commits into
base: master
Choose a base branch
from
Open

[bash/en] fix inaccurate description re [[ ... && ... || ... ]] and examples to match it; change while to use [[ ... ]] for consistency #5368

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
2 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
9f219e7
fix inaccurate description and change if-statement examples to match it
macmarrum Aug 9, 2025
2a5cbd0
change to `[[ ... ]]` for consistency with other examples
macmarrum Aug 9, 2025
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
8 changes: 4 additions & 4 deletions bash.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -166,13 +166,13 @@ else
echo "Your name is your username"
fi

# To use && and || with if statements, you need multiple pairs of square brackets:
# You can use && and || with if statements:
read age
if [[ "$name" == "Steve" ]] && [[ "$age" -eq 15 ]]; then
if [[ "$name" == "Steve" && "$age" -eq 15 ]]; then
echo "This will run if $name is Steve AND $age is 15."
fi

if [[ "$name" == "Daniya" ]] || [[ "$name" == "Zach" ]]; then
if [[ "$name" == "Daniya" || "$name" == "Zach" ]]; then
echo "This will run if $name is Daniya OR Zach."
fi

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ do
done

# while loop:
while [ true ]
while [[ true ]]
do
echo "loop body here..."
break
Expand Down