On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 08:19:13AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: [...] > if [[ 1 > 2 ]] > > > This should be a string compare. > > Actually, when quoted properly, it should be a numeric comparison, not a > string comparison. [...]
It *is* a string comparison: $ bash -c '[[ 02 > 1 ]]' || echo "02 is not greater than 1" 02 is not greater than 1 [[ a > b ]], [ a '>' b ] are string comparisons. [ a -gt b ], [[ a -gt b ]], (( a > b )) are numeric comparisons. expr's > is both depending on whether the operands are recognised as integers or not. in awk, it depends on the type of the arguments. -- Stéphane _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
