sh script ?

[Teske, Devin]

Use = for string comparison with the [ built-in and -eq for numerical comparison.

-- 
Devin

On Jan 24, 2013, at 10:07 AM, Fbsd8 <fbsd8 at a1poweruser.com> wrote:

> I get this message [: 10.0.10.21: bad number on this code
> 
>   [ "${saved_ip}" -eq "${used_ip}" ] && echo "good match"
> 
> Both variables have valid ip addresses in them.
> Why does it think the variable content is a number and not text?
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks for your help
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