On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 25, 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote about "Re: Help with a Bourne Shell Script":
> > Sometimes I do "expr 5 \> 6 > /dev/null" instead.
>
> Well, you shouldn't... Expr wasn't meant for these kinds of things, and
> you just saw how this can cause you bugs. Do "test 5 -gt 6" instead.
>

OK. You learn something new every day.

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish

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