On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 15:56 -0500, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 13:59, R P Herrold <herrold@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > or for those who are used to being burned: > > [ 0$NUMBEROFPRO -gt 150 ] > > Still going to explode if $NUMBEROFPRO contains spaces. Putting in > double quotes will not help you either, since it will complain about > it not being numeric... That taught me long ago, if input was inconsistent, to check for non-numerics before doing math. Back then, it was the expr command (still available I think). Now it's some of those builtins accessed with ${} constructs. Expr is simpler, shorter to code and reliable. > > Doing math with the shell is always tricky, almost never robust... > > Filipe > <snip sig stuff> -- Bill _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos