Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 17:22:00 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Peter Rosa <prosa@pro.sk> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Problem with periodically done scripts Message-ID: <20030725222200.GA2484@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <033601c352fa$93aa0280$3501a8c0@pro.sk> References: <44wue68ebs.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <033601c352fa$93aa0280$3501a8c0@pro.sk>
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In the last episode (Jul 26), Peter Rosa said: > Dear Gilbert, > > I have replaced wc with make install from /usr/src/usr.bin/wc and now it > works. Up now wc -l gave no results, now it give proper number. > > Could you, please, explain the following line: [ $n -gt 0 -a $rc -lt 1 ] ??? > Why are there [] ? When I write it at prompt as > [0 -gt 0 -a - lt 0] it writes [: 0: unexpected operator, but > [0 -gt 0 -a -lt ] writes nothing. [ is another way to run the "test" command. "man test" for more info. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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