On 2007-05-13, Overdorf, Sam wrote: > The following does not work on my computers: > > > > If [ "1" > "2" ] > > then > > echo "greater" > > else > > echo "not greater" > > fi > > > > Bash thinks this is I/O redirection and creates a file by the name of > "2" in my directory. > > This should be a string compare.
As '[' is a command, the arguments are parsed normally, and '>' is taken as a redirection operator. (And 'if' should not be capitalized.) To use '>' in a string comparison, either use the shell syntax [[ ... ]] or escape the '>': if [ "1" \> "2" ] if [[ "1" > "2" ]] -- Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org> =================================================================== Author: Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
