Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:52:02 +0100 From: Frank Staals <frankstaals@gmx.net> To: Frank Staals <frankstaals@gmx.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Shellscript syntax question Message-ID: <43C2BEE2.6020306@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <43C2BE4A.4070601@gmx.net> References: <43C2BE4A.4070601@gmx.net>
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Frank Staals wrote:
> Hey,
>
> 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
> Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong/ what it should be and where
> I could find such info. I tried searching in google about this, but I
> wasn't able to find anything usefull.
> Thanks in advance
>
damn The copied collors in the syntax-hilighting in KATE screwed up my
code: it should be:
if [ ${episode_last} < ${episode_first} ]; then
<code>
fi
--
-Frank Staals
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