why test(1) works with -eq but not -nq ?
Mark Ovens
mark at ukug.uk.freebsd.org
Wed Apr 21 07:49:02 PDT 2004
Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Could somebody explain me why in the second case I get an error (both
> with test(1) and with sh's builtin) ?
>
> itetcu at it> /var/log/ports [16:51:38] 0
> # sh
> # cat ports_sup_log | wc -l
> 3
> # if [ "`cat ports_sup_log | wc -l`" -eq "3" ]; then echo 'da'; fi
> da
> # if [ "`cat ports_sup_log | wc -l`" -nq "3" ]; then echo 'da'; fi
> [: 3: unexpected operator
>
> # if (/bin/test "`cat ports_sup_log | wc -l`" -eq "3") ; then echo 'da'; fi
> da
> # if (/bin/test "`cat ports_sup_log | wc -l`" -nq "3") ; then echo 'da'; fi
> test: 3: unexpected operator
>
>
>
The 'not equal' operator (I assume that is what you want) is -ne, not -nq
HTH
Regards,
Mark
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