Question

My code is:

if [ "$server" == "a" ]; then
        echo "apache"
fi

if [ "$server" ==  "t"   ]
then
        echo "tomcat"
else
        echo "Entered"
fi

The value of the $server is t. I expect the value tomcat to be printed on the console. But Entered is printed too!

I’m confused about this. How come both the if and else statements are executed?

Answer 1

The else branch should only ever execute if the preceding if statement evaluates to false. There’s not really any exceptions to that rule that I’m aware of. There’s probably something else fishy going on in the bash file that’s causing the issue.

Make sure bash is what is executing the script. #!/bin/bash should be on the first line.