Shellscript syntax question

Frank Staals frankstaals at gmx.net
Mon Jan 9 12:20:12 PST 2006


Dan Nelson wrote:

>In the last episode (Jan 09), Frank Staals said:
>  
>
>>I'm trying to write a ( simple ) shellscript to move files arround,
>>for this reason I wanted to check wether 'episode_last' has a higher
>>value than 'episode_first' ( so that last can't be 3 if first is 60
>>). So I tried :
>>
>>*if** [* ${episode_last} < ${episode_first}* ]*; *then
>>	<code>
>>fi
>>
>>*As I thought what would have been the correct syntax, but I got this error 
>>when running the script : 
>>./massmove: line 136: 05: No such file or directory
>>
>>
>>'05' was the value of $episode_first and '01' was the value of 
>>$episode_last 
>>    
>>
>
>You want "-lt" not "<".  "<" is a file redirect, which is why the shell
>complained that it couldn't find a file named "05".  I also assume all
>those asterisks aren't in your script.
>
>  
>
About the asteriks : No they weren't but for some reason Thunderbird had 
problems with the color remaining from the KATE Syntax-hilighting. 
Anyway: thanks for the solusion, but what would be the expressions for 
">" "less or equal" and "greater or equal" ?

-- 
-Frank Staals




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