Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:47:10 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why test(1) works with -eq but not -nq ? Message-ID: <20040421144709.GA61380@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20040421170914.5a5204a3@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> References: <20040421170914.5a5204a3@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro>
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In the last episode (Apr 21), Ion-Mihai Tetcu said: > 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 What do you expect -nq to do? The equality tests are -eq (equal) and -ne (not equal). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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