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Re: bash is not capable of comparing of strings and real numbers
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Stephane Chazelas |
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Re: bash is not capable of comparing of strings and real numbers |
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Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:49:47 +0000 (UTC) |
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2009-12-07, 22:22(+00), pk:
> phani krishna jampala wrote:
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>> bash is not capable of comparing of strings ( imean interms of lessthan or
>> greater than etc)
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> It is, if you use [[ ]]
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> a="abcd"
> b="bcde"
> if [[ "$b" > "$a" ]]; then
> echo "$b is greater than $a"
> fi
[...]
Or the "[" (aka test) builtin:
[ "%b" \> "$a" ]
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Stéphane