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- Programming_Languages
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- shell
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## If statements
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* Conditional blocks start with `if` and end with the inversion `fi` (this is a common syntactic pattern in bash)
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* The conditional expression must be placed in square brackets with spaces either side. The spaces matter: if you omit them, the code will not run
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* We designate the code to run when the conditional is met with `then`
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* We can incorporate else if logic with `elif`
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