Re: Shellscript syntax question

2006-01-10 Thread Jan Grant
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Frank Staals wrote: > 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 equ

Re: Shellscript syntax question

2006-01-09 Thread Luke Bakken
> 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, Since you're getting into

Re: Shellscript syntax question

2006-01-09 Thread Will Maier
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 09:20:42PM +0100, Frank Staals wrote: > Anyway: thanks for the solusion, but what would be the expressions for > ">" "less or equal" and "greater or equal" ? man 1 test the '[' and ']' that surround the if-statement are shorthand for the test(1) utility. The man page has

Re: Shellscript syntax question

2006-01-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 09), Frank Staals said: > 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

Re: Shellscript syntax question

2006-01-09 Thread Frank Staals
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

Re: Shellscript syntax question

2006-01-09 Thread Dan Nelson
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** [* ${episo

Re: Shellscript syntax question

2006-01-09 Thread Frank Staals
Frank Staals wrote: Hey, 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}*

Shellscript syntax question

2006-01-09 Thread Frank Staals
Hey, 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 fi