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Re: if (()){}else{} documented?

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From: Lawrence Velázquez <larryv@xxxxxxx>
To: david <zsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: zsh-users@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: if (()){}else{} documented?
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 11:33:07 -0400
Archived-at: <https://zsh.org/users/26682>
In-reply-to: <1154b0e1-e5ad-70be-f620-1368c86f12ed@rayninfo.co.uk>
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References: <1154b0e1-e5ad-70be-f620-1368c86f12ed@rayninfo.co.uk>

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021, at 10:40 AM, david wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have been in a world of pain playing around with compound control 
> structures
> 
> e.g. this only works as a single line (is that true?)
> 
>   if (( $1 == 4 )) { echo good } else { echo bad }
> 
> just wondered where I could read up on this?

The zshmisc(1) man page, section "ALTERNATE FORMS FOR COMPLEX
COMMANDS".  It assumes familiarity with lists, so probably also
look at "SIMPLE COMMANDS & PIPELINES".

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vq

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