Question

Every if is closed with a corresponding ____

(a) else

(b) fi

(c) if

(d) else if

The question was posed to me in a job interview.

I'd like to ask this question from Logical Operators and Conditional Execution topic in division Essential Shell Programming of Unix

Answer 1

Right answer is (b) fi

The best I can explain: if and else statements are used for making two-way decisions. Every if is closed with the corresponding fi. If we don’t do this we’ll encounter an error.