Exercise

Convert the following overly long sentence to a series of shorter sentences. Don't revise too much; just end up with a few sentences instead of only one.

In bash, use the if, then, and fi statements to implement a simple conditional branching block in which the if statement evaluates an expression, the then statement introduces a block of statements to run when the if expression is true, and the fi statement marks the end of the conditional branching block.

Practice:

In bash you use if, then and fi statements to implement a simple conditional branching block, in which If statement evaluates an expression. Then statement introduces block of statments to run but only if, “If” expression is true. The “fi statment marks end of conditional branking block.

Convert some long sentences to lists

Exercise

Refactor the following sentences into something shorter and clearer. Make sure that your answer contains a list:

  1. To get started with the Frambus app, you must first find the app at a suitable store, pay for it using a valid credit or debit card, download it, configure it by assigning a value for the Foo variable in the /etc/Frambus file, and then run it by saying the magic word twice.
  2. KornShell was invented by David Korn in 1983, then a computer scientist at Bell Labs, as a superset of features, enhancements, and improvements over the Bourne Shell (which it was backwards compatible with), which was invented by Stephen Bourne in 1977 who was also a computer scientist at Bell Labs.