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    The shell script language includes common programming constructs like conditional execution with if-then-else statements, iterative execution with for loops and while loops, and a switch statement. Specifically, it discusses: 1) If-then-else statements evaluate an expression and execute one of two command lists depending on the result. 2) While loops continuously execute a command list as long as an expression remains true. 3) For loops iterate through elements to execute a command list multiple times.

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    The shell script language includes common programming constructs like conditional execution with if-then-else statements, iterative execution with for loops and while loops, and a switch statement. Specifically, it discusses: 1) If-then-else statements evaluate an expression and execute one of two command lists depending on the result. 2) While loops continuously execute a command list as long as an expression remains true. 3) For loops iterate through elements to execute a command list multiple times.

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    5 Language Constructs

    The shell script language, like other programming languages, has constructs for conditional execution (if-then-else; while), iterative execution (for loop), a switch statement, and a goto statement: 1. if-then-else The syntax of the if-then-else construct is
    if ( expr ) simple-command

    or
    if ( expr ) then commandlist-1 [else commandlist-2] endif

    The expression expr will be evaluated and according to its value, the commandlist-1 or the commandlist-2 will be executed. The portion of the construct enclosed in '[' and ']' is optional.1 As an example, suppose we write a shell script which is supposed to have two parameters, and that the code will set up two variables, `name1' and `name2' from those two parameters, i.e.
    set name1 = $argv[1] set name2 = $argv[2]

    (which presumably it would make use of later on). But suppose we also wish to do errorchecking, emitting an error message if the user gives fewer than two, or more than two, parameters. We could use the following code
    if ($#argv <> echo "you else set name1 set name2 endif 2) then must give exactly two parameters" = $argv[1] = $argv[2]

    2. while The syntax of while loop construct is


    while ( expr )

    commandlist end

    The commandlist will be executed until the expr evaluates to false. 3. foreach

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