[CentOS] simple if statement

Fri Feb 27 15:01:29 UTC 2009
Tom Brown <tom at ng23.net>

> A ":" on it's own will do what you want.
>
>   if [ "$remaining" = "" ]
>   then
>     :
>   else
>     kill -9 $remaining
>   fi
>
> But better would be
>
>   if [ -n "$remaining" ]
>   then
>     kill -9 $remaining
>   fi
>
>   

thanks to all for the suggestions