Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 17:38:52 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: bash question Message-ID: <19980407173852.47780@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980407140742.9001A-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>; from Dean Hollister on Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 02:09:11PM %2B0800 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980407140742.9001A-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>
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On Tue, 7 April 1998 at 14:09:11 +0800, Dean Hollister wrote: > > Hi, > > Just a quick (and no doubt easy question). I have a bash script, and want > to check if a value is greater than 100 and less than 1000. I get as far > as: > > if [ $value what goes in here? ]; then > dosomething > fi if [ $value -gt 100 -a $value -lt 1000 ]; then dosomething fi It's in the man page for test(1). The name [ is a synonym for test: $ ls -l /bin/[ /bin/test -r-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 45056 Mar 27 14:30 /bin/[ -r-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 45056 Mar 27 14:30 /bin/test Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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