On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:14:01AM +0000, Tom Brown wrote: > Hi > > Below if $remaining is empty i want the if to finish - what is it i need > to put in SOMETHING? > > if [ "$remaining" = "" ] ; then > SOMETHING ; > else > kill -9 $remaining > fi
A ":" on it's own will do what you want. if [ "$remaining" = "" ] then : else kill -9 $remaining fi But better would be if [ -n "$remaining" ] then kill -9 $remaining fi -- rgds Stephen _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos