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From: "Ian D. Leroux" <ian_leroux@fastmail.fm>
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Subject: Re: why test(1) works with -eq but not -nq ?
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try -ne instead of -nq :-)

Ian

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 05:09:14PM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Could somebody explain me why in the second case I get an error (both
> with test(1) and with sh's builtin) ?
> 
> itetcu@it> /var/log/ports [16:51:38] 0
>  # sh
> # cat ports_sup_log | wc -l
>        3
> # if [ "`cat ports_sup_log | wc -l`" -eq "3" ]; then echo 'da'; fi
> da
> # if [ "`cat ports_sup_log | wc -l`" -nq "3" ]; then echo 'da'; fi
> [:        3: unexpected operator
> 
> # if (/bin/test "`cat ports_sup_log | wc -l`" -eq "3") ; then echo 'da'; fi
> da
> # if (/bin/test "`cat ports_sup_log | wc -l`" -nq "3") ; then echo 'da'; fi
> test:        3: unexpected operator
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> IOnut
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