If you are just starting to explore the Bash coding language, you will soon find yourself wanting to create conditional statements. Conditional statements, in other words, define ‘if a condition is true or false, then do this or that, and if the opposite is true, do something else’. This is the most basic function of any conditional statement.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://linuxconfig.org/bash-if-statements-if-elif-else-then-fi