On Jan 10, 2008 3:13 PM, Frans de Boer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To: bug-bash@gnu.org > Subject: Comparison failure > > Following is a function which fails constantly. The function is being > called by other functions but the result is nowadays always this failure > on the compare function. Sometimes it went wrong when the number was > three (2) in this example it is 6. This has worked before with another > version of bash. > ++ [[ 5 < 54 ]] >
< = != > inside [[ ]] compares strings not numbers ie [[ 2 < 103 ]] is false use either [[ 2 -lt 103 ]] or the arithmetic evaluation : (( 2 < 103 ))
