Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 13:54:28 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Frank Staals <frankstaals@gmx.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shellscript syntax question Message-ID: <20060109195427.GC89638@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <43C2BE4A.4070601@gmx.net> References: <43C2BE4A.4070601@gmx.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In the last episode (Jan 09), Frank Staals said:
> I'm trying to write a ( simple ) shellscript to move files arround,
> for this reason I wanted to check wether 'episode_last' has a higher
> value than 'episode_first' ( so that last can't be 3 if first is 60
> ). So I tried :
>
> *if** [* ${episode_last} < ${episode_first}* ]*; *then
> <code>
> fi
>
> *As I thought what would have been the correct syntax, but I got this error
> when running the script :
> ./massmove: line 136: 05: No such file or directory
>
>
> '05' was the value of $episode_first and '01' was the value of
> $episode_last
You want "-lt" not "<". "<" is a file redirect, which is why the shell
complained that it couldn't find a file named "05". I also assume all
those asterisks aren't in your script.
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20060109195427.GC89638>