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CodeSnippets/bash/booleans.bash
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#!/bin/bash
# BASH doesn't actually understand booleans.
# What you can do however is to trick it by using the fact that the true and false commands return 0 and 1,
# so it can stand in for boolean algebra if used correctly.
BOOLEAN1=false
if $BOOLEAN1; then
echo "We won't get here because BOOLEAN1 is false."
fi
if ! $BOOLEAN1; then
echo "But we DO get here."
fi
BOOLEAN1=true
if $BOOLEAN1; then
echo "Now we do get in this as it's been set to true."
fi
if ! $BOOLEAN1; then
echo "And now we DON'T get here."
fi