Conditionals in BashEdit

• [: alias for the test command, is POSIX and portable, supported by many shells
• [[: a language keyword, supported by Bash/Zsh, additional features (eg. not necessary to quote variables etc)
• if: naked if construct can be used to check if commands complete successfully (eg if ! some_command; then ...; fi)

See also

• http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/031