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Title of script: Logical Operators in Bash Shell

Author: Lavitha pereira

Keywords: Video tutorial, Bash Shell, Logical AND, Logical OR, Logical NOT


Visual Cue Narration
Display Slide Dear friends, Welcome to the Spoken tutorial on

Logical Operators in Bash Shell

Display Slide In this tutorial, we will learn
  • Use of Logical AND
  • Logical OR
  • Logical NOT operators
  • using a few examples


Display Slide Prerequisites


To follow this tutorial you should have knowledge of
  • if-else statement,
  • command line arguments and
  1. quoting in BASH.If not, for relevant tutorials please visit our website which is as shown.


Display Slide For this tutorial I am using
  • Ubuntu Linux 12.04 OS and
  • GNU Bash version 4.1.10

GNU Bash version 4 or above is recommended to practise this tutorial.

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Logical Operators


Let us understand the use of Logical operators.
  • Logical operators are mainly used to control program flow
  • Logical operators helps to link two expressions or conditions
  • They can be a part of if, a while, or some other control statements


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Logical AND

Syntax:

[ $condition1 ] && [ $condition2 ]


[ $condition1 -a $condition2 ]


Let's see the syntax of logical AND
  • Opening Square bracket space dollar symbol condition1 space closing square bracket space ampersand ampersand space Opening Square bracket space dollar symbol condition2 space closing square bracket
  • Or we can use this syntax
  • Opening Square bracket space dollar symbol condition1 space hyphen a space dollar symbol condition2 space closing square bracket
  • Logical AND returns true when both condition1 and condition2 are true


Let us see the syntax of Logical OR
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Logical OR


[ $condition1 ] || [ $condition2 ]


[ $condition1 -o $condition2 ]

* Opening Square bracket space dollar symbol condition1 space closing square bracket space vertical bar vertical bar space Opening Square bracket space dollar symbol condition2 space closing square bracket
  • Or we can use this syntax
  • Opening Square bracket space dollar symbol condition1 space hyphen o space dollar symbol condition2 space closing square bracket
  • Logical OR returns true when either condition1 or condition2 is true


Let us learn the usage of Logical OR and Logical AND using an example.
Open file

On Terminal>> Type gedit logical.sh>> Press Enter

I have already typed the code in a file named logical.sh.

So, on the Terminal I will type

gedit logical.sh and press Enter.

Let me explain the code now.
#!/bin/bash This is the shebang line.
read -p "Enter a Word : " string The read command reads one line of data from standard input.

-p display the prompt.

string is a variable which stores the text entered by the user, during execution.

if [ -z "$string" ]; then


The if statement checks whether the entered string is empty.

-z checks whether length of string is zero

Type man test on terminal to explore various other string comparisons.
echo "Nothing was entered " The echo statement will print a message if nothing was entered.
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elif [[ "$string" == *"raj"* ]] && [[ "$string" == *"jit"* ]]; then

echo "$string contains both the words raj and jit"

If the string is not empty, the program will move to the first elif statement.

Here it checks whether the entered string contains both the words raj and jit

If yes, then it echoes out a message.

Please note that logical AND is used here.

Hence the message will be displayed only when both the conditions are satisfied.

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elif [[ "$string" == *"raj"* ]] || [[ $string = *"jit"* ]]; then

echo "$string contains word 'raj' or 'jit'"

If that is not so, then the program will move onto the second elif statement.

Here it checks whether the entered string contains either raj or jit.

If yes, then it will display a message.

Please note that logical OR is used here.

The message will be displayed only when any one of the conditions are satisfied.

else

echo "Sorry! entered word '$string' does not contain either 'raj' or 'jit'"

Lastly, we have the default else statement.

When all the above statements are false, then this statement will be executed.

fi fi is the end of multilevel if-else loop.

Let us execute the program

On the terminal


>> Type chmod +x logical.sh>> Press Enter

>> Type ./logical.sh>> Press Enter

Switch to the terminal.

First make the file executable by typing

chmod space plus x space logical.sh

Now type dot slash logical.sh and press Enter

Let us give different inputs and see what happens.
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The output


Enter a Word:

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Type:

jitinraj


jitinraj contains both the words raj and jit

The prompt displays Enter a word:

I will enter jitinraj

The output is:

jitinraj contains both the words raj and jit

This means that the control was passed to the second statement.

And as both the conditions are satisfied, it displays the message:

jitinraj contains both the words raj and jit

Press up arrow key>> go to ./logical.sh>>

Press Enter

Now let us execute the script again.

Press the up arrow key.

Go to ./logical.sh and press Enter

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Type:

abhijit

abijit contains word 'raj' or 'jit'

The prompt displays Enter a word:

This time I will enter abijit.

And the output is:

abijit contains word 'raj' or 'jit'.

Please try executing the program with different inputs and observe the output.
Let's switch back to our slides.
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Logical NOT

Let's have a look at logical NOT operator.
  • It inverts the boolean value of an expression.
  • Which means, it returns true if the expression is false
  • and returns false if the expression is true


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Logical NOT

Syntax

expression


[ ! expression ]


The syntax of logical NOT operator is
  • Exclamation mark space expression

Or

  • Opening square bracket space exclamation mark space expression space closing square bracket


Let us see an example.
Open file

On Terminal>> Type gedit logicalNOT.sh>> Press Enter

I have already typed the code in a file.

So, I will go to the terminal and type gedit logicalNOT.sh

Press Enter.

#!/bin/bash This is the shebang line, as we already know.
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if [ ! -f "$1" ]; then


$1 is the first command line argument passed to the script.


-f checks if the file exists with the same name that was passed as an argument.

So, it will return true if the file exists and false if it does not exist.

Point to the NOT operator with cursor.


This NOT operator here inverses the returned value.

Which means, if a file of that name exists, the conditon will be true.

But the NOT operator will inverse its value to false.

echo "File $1 does not exist" And it will display the message

FILE does not exist

else

echo "File $1 exist"

And here in the else statement, it displays the message

FILE exists

fi fi marks the end of if loop.
On the terminal

touch test.txt


Switch to the terminal

Let's create an empty file with the name test.txt.

So, type :

touch space test.txt

>> Type chmod +x logicalNOT.sh>> Press Enter

>> Type ./logicalNOT.sh test.txt>> Press Enter

Next, make the script executable by typing:

chmod space plus x space logicalNOT.sh

Now type dot slash logical.sh space test.txt and press Enter.

Point to test.txt in the previous command Our shell script will check whether the file exists.

Our file test.txt exists; hence the value will be true.

Then the logical NOT will inverse that value and return false.

Because the evaluation is false, the else statement is evaluated.

Show Output

File 'test.txt' exists

And the message displayed is -

File 'test.txt' exists

Try executing the program again with argument test1.txt

And observe the control flow as explained before.

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Summary

Let us summarize.

In this tutorial we learnt the usage of,

  • logical AND
  • logical OR and
  • logical NOT operators


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Assignment

Check whether
  • a file exists and is executable
  • using the logical operators
  • explained in this tutorial
  • (Hint: man test)


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