phani krishna jampala wrote: > bash is not capable of comparing of strings ( imean interms of lessthan or > greater than etc)
It is, if you use [[ ]] a="abcd" b="bcde" if [[ "$b" > "$a" ]]; then echo "$b is greater than $a" fi > and real numbers ( the float values). True, but I can't really speak as to whether this is planned or not (I think it isn't, but of course I might be wrong).