Re: [OT]Bash Script help

[Ant <ant@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 05 June 2003 21:09, Dean Smith wrote:

> if [ "$VAL" > "%2" ]; then

It's doing a string (lexical) comparison, which isn't what you wanted.
You want to use the arithmetic operators (-lt, -gt, -le, -ge, -eq, -ne) and
the $((...)) construct to evaluate your variables as arithmetics. Try
something like this:

#!/bin/bash

val=42;
limit1=50;
limit2=13;

if [ $(($val)) -gt $(($limit1)) ]; then
echo "hurrah!";
else echo "arse!";
fi

if [ $(($val)) -gt $(($limit2)) ]; then
echo "hurrah!";
else echo "arse!";
fi

HTH

ant
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