On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 12:05:17AM -0400, Paul Jarc wrote: > TBlittlefoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But I can't find a reference to "\<" in man bash. It's > > not a typo, because the script works fine. > > The backslash ensures that the "<" doesn't trigger a redirection. > Offhand, I'm not sure whether it's needed in this context, but > apparently it's at least harmless.
Okay. It's escaped. That makes sense. > > > It appears to be a synonym for "<=", > > <= would iterate one extra time. :-( I see that now. > > > Would ">/" == "=>" too? > > \> , '>' , and perhaps > (unquoted) would all be equivalent as > less-than. '>=' would be less-than-or-equal. You mean "greater-than"? Thanks, Paul, Tom _______________________________________________ help-gnu-utils mailing list help-gnu-utils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-utils
