"if" man pages

[Nuwan Wijesundera]

I am working in a hp_ux 11.11. I want to get man pages for "if, while" .But I can find those pages in the system. I have access to other general man pages. How can I find them.Do I need to install them seperately?
Thanx.

[T G Manikandan · Accepted solution]

do a

#man 1 sh-posix

[Vijaya Kumar_3]

The "if" is not a command in Unix. It is a shell built-in. Means it is not there as a executable but will be available in the shell.

So you have to refer to the respective shell manual pages for the reference.

If you use Korn Shell, refer "man ksh"

Thanks
Vijay

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

"if" is a shell script tool, not an unix command. Hence the man pages not available.

[Hoefnix]

also "man test" can give you some usefull information.

Regards,

Peter

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

To determine what man page to use, do:
type

In your case, 'type if' would return: 'if is a keyword', meaning it is a shell internal. So determine your shell ('echo $SHELL') and request that man page, because it should be described there.