Shell script之if...then

1　　Variable in shell 

　　If you want to print variable, then use echo command.

　　In front of the variable to add $variabel or use ${variable} to fetch the value of variable.

# echo $variable
# echo $PATH

2　　if....then

if condition
then
    condition is true
    execute all commands up to else statement
else
    if condition is not true then
    execute all commands up to fi
fi

3　　Example

 1 #!/bin/bash
 2 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 3 # call pythonscript, then modelsim
 4 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

 if [ $# -eq  ]; then
     here=$PWD;
     cd '../../02_modelsim'　　# work directory in your project
     vsim -gui&
     cd $here;
 elif [ $ == "-h" ]; then
12     # questasim-doc:
     evince /Software/AMS/current/questasim/v10.3b/docs/pdfdocs/_bk_questa_sim.pdf &
 fi

4　　Explanation

`$` refer to `value of` and
`#` refer to `number of / total number`

So together

`$#` refer to `The value of the total number of command line arguments passed.`

Thus, you can use $# to check the number of arguments/parameters passed like you did and handle any unexpected situations.

`$1` for `value of 1st argument passed`
`$2` for 'value of 2nd argument passed`