IF Help

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there is also a good shell programmers' tutorial at 
www.blindprogramming.com under the UNIX section, I think.
At 07:03 PM 4/22/2006, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>As it is bash scripting, just type at your prompt "help if".  Looks 
>like we're on our own in trying to do these little jobs.
>
>Gena
>On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 07:59:24PM +0100, Chris Norman wrote:
> > Hi people,
> > I want to use the if command, but can't find any manual page for it.
> >
> > I want to use it to run a command, and at present, I have:
> >
> > if date -r $file +%V -lt $number; then
> > #statements
> > fi
> >
> > But it won't work.
> >
> > $file is a filename. How do I do this?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Chris Norman
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