small if statement in shell script

[michael@etalon.net]

Hello,

I have an if statement, something like:

if [ "$day" = "Thu" ]; then
tar -cpf /var/backups/homethu.tar /home
fi

If I decide to pound out the tar command, then the script
will error and it won't continue on.
Is it possible to pound out the tar command and still leave the if
statement intact? even though there is no command to do.

Thanks!
Mike

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