Cshell if clause indentation

UNIX for Beginners Q & A
1

I would like to know if indentation is relevant for Cshell scripts.
I wrote my code like this:

if ((-e file1) && (-e file2)) then

cat file1 > file10
cat file2 > file20

endif

Usually I write my if clauses like this:

if ((-e file1) && (-e file2)) then
        cat file1 > file10
        cat file2 > file20
 endif

I have tested this script now and it seems that it works without indentation. However, I would like to ask to be sure that it is like that in any way regardless of the computer system or something else because I have processed a lot of large data on different computers with an unindented script and there is no way for me to go back and see if the if clause was evaluated.

2

Correct, indentation makes it readable but doesn't alter the logical flow.

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