Terms

Conditional flow control commands Commands that allow the flow of a script to be conditionally changed. Also called flow control commands.

Compound expression When two or more expressions are combined, the result is called a compound expression.

Flow control commands See conditional flow control commands.

Negating expressions Reverses the result of a test expression. An expression that would have been true is treated as false and vice versa.

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