Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:20:42 +0100 From: Frank Staals <frankstaals@gmx.net> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shellscript syntax question Message-ID: <43C2C59A.6020906@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20060109195427.GC89638@dan.emsphone.com> References: <43C2BE4A.4070601@gmx.net> <20060109195427.GC89638@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson wrote:
>In the last episode (Jan 09), Frank Staals said:
>
>
>>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
>>
>>
>
>You want "-lt" not "<". "<" is a file redirect, which is why the shell
>complained that it couldn't find a file named "05". I also assume all
>those asterisks aren't in your script.
>
>
>
About the asteriks : No they weren't but for some reason Thunderbird had
problems with the color remaining from the KATE Syntax-hilighting.
Anyway: thanks for the solusion, but what would be the expressions for
">" "less or equal" and "greater or equal" ?
--
-Frank Staals
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