bash if, then and else statement

Question

I am learning bash, I ran into a small problem when trying to write a small script

#!/bin/bash
clear
read num
if [ "$num" -eq 2 ] 

then [ -d "/etc/passwd" ] | sudo cp /etc/passwd /home
        echo -e "${lred}The passwd file has been copied to your home directory. ${NC}"
else 
        echo "The directory does not exist"
fi

the problem that I have is I want the directory to be checked, else display the second echo "The directory does not exist" when attempting to run the copy command. I get "cp: cannot stat ‘/et/passwd’: No such file or directory" but the first echo that states "The passwd file has been copied to your home directory." still shows up and the second echo "The file does not exists" does not. If someone has a solution, I really appreciate it. Thanks!

Edit: here is my entire script

#!/bin/bash

clear
lred='\033[1;31m'
red='\033[0;31m'
NC='\033[0m' # No Color
blue='\033[0;34m'
lblue='\033[1;34m'

echo -e "${red}Welcome to Lab 7 Utilities Menu ${NC}" # tells echo to enable backslash escapes
sleep 3
clear
echo -e "${lblue}Choose one of the options from the following list:${NC}"
echo -e "${blue}1. Monitor existing processes ${NC}"

echo -e "${blue}2. Copy passwd to /home directory ${NC}"

echo -e "${blue}3. Ping local host ${NC}"

echo -e "${lred}4. Exit ${NC}"

read num 

if [ $num -eq 1 ]

then ps aux
        echo -e "${lred}The list has been successfully generated! ${NC}"
fi

if [ "$num" -eq 2 ]; then
        if [ -e "/etc/passwd" ]; then
           sudo cp /etc/passwd /home
           echo -e "${lred}The passwd file has been copied to your home directory. ${NC}"
        else
           echo "The File does not exist"
        fi
    else
        echo "You entered number that isn't 2"
fi

if [ "$num" -eq 3 ]

then ping -c 4 127.0.0.1
        echo -e "${lred}You have completed pinging localhost. ${NC}"

elif [ "$num" -eq 4 ]

then clear

elif [ "$num" -gt 4 ]
then echo -e "${red}Please choose between number 1 and 4. ${NC}"
clear

fi

Answer 1

Update (from our chat), I think a case statement works better for what you are trying to accomplish here:

#!/bin/bash

clear
lred='\033[1;31m'
red='\033[0;31m'
NC='\033[0m' # No Color
blue='\033[0;34m'
lblue='\033[1;34m'

# tells echo to enable backslash escapes
echo -e "${red}Welcome to Lab 7 Utilities Menu ${NC}"
sleep 3
clear
echo -e "${lblue}Choose one of the options from the following list:${NC}"
echo -e "${blue}1. Monitor existing processes ${NC}"
echo -e "${blue}2. Copy passwd to /home directory ${NC}"
echo -e "${blue}3. Ping local host ${NC}"
echo -e "${lred}4. Exit ${NC}"

read num

case $num in
        1)
           ps aux
           echo -e "${lred}The list has been successfully generated! ${NC}"
        ;;
        2)
           if [ -e "/etc/passwd" ]; then
              sudo cp /etc/passwd /home
              echo -e "${lred}The passwd file has been copied to your home directory. ${NC}"
           else
              echo "The File does not exist"
           fi
        ;;
        3)
           ping -c 4 127.0.0.1
           echo -e "${lred}You have completed pinging localhost. ${NC}"
        ;;
        4)
           clear
        ;;
        *)
           echo -e "${red}Please choose between number 1 and 4. ${NC}"
        ;;
esac

---

Are you sure you want to copy your passwd file to the /home directory? Other than that, this should work:

#!/bin/bash
clear
read num
if [ "$num" -eq 2 ]; then
        if [ -e "/etc/passwd" ]; then
           sudo cp /etc/passwd /home
           echo -e "${lred}The passwd file has been copied to your home directory. ${NC}"
        else
           echo "The File does not exist"
        fi
else
        echo "You entered a number that isn't '2'"
fi

The -d argument checks if FILE exists and is a directory. What you want is -e which checks FILE exists.

Also you were trying to pipe | after the then, which would cause more conflicts as it is incorrect for what you are trying to do.