Boolean Best Practices

It is best to use booleans in your scripts rather than using an integer to check for the truth of a statement. The reason for this is that it cleans up the code and makes it more intuitive when mapping values to parameter.

For example, if a parameter is called Create Full Backup, true makes more sense than 1

Bash

true and false are native to Mac and Linux operating systems, this means variable can be evaluated without assigning integers.

For example:

if {attuneVar}
then
    echo "true"
fi

Attune substitutes the a value into the {attuneVar} parameter.

If the value is true :

if true
then
    echo "true"
fi

If you want to evaluate a variable as false, you can use the NOT operator !

if ! false
then
    echo 'This is false'
fi

Multiple values can be evaluated with the AND operator &&

if true && ! false
then
    echo 'The first value is true and the second value is false'
fi

Powershell

The same is true for Powershell except Powershell use $true and $false.

For example:

if (${{attuneVal}}) {
    Write-Host "true"
}

Attune substitutes the value into the {attuneVar} parameter.

If the value is true :

if ($true) {
    Write-Host "true"
}

If you want to evaluate a variable as false, you can use the NOT operator -not

if -not ($false) {
    Write-Host "Not False"
}

Python

Python uses True and False. To keep the use of booleans consistent throughout a project, you are able to assign the booleans to variables at the beginning of a Python script.

For example:

true=True
false=False

if {attuneVal}:
    print("Do the work for true")
else
    print("Do the work for else")

If the Parameter is mapped to true, Attune substitutes true into the {attuneVal} parameter which is assigned to True.

true=True
false=False

if true:
    print("Do the work for true")
else
    print("Do the work for else")

If you want to evaluate a variable as false, you can use the NOT operator not

true=True
false=False

if not false:
    print("Do the work for true")
else
    print("Do the work for else")

Multiple values can be evaluated with the AND operator and

true=True
false=False

if not false and true:
    print("Do the work for true")
else
    print("Do the work for else")