[NBLUG/talk] shell scripting help

[Bill Kendrick]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 03:05:14PM -0700, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Sean <seanvanco at gmail.com> wrote:
> > while [ loops != 180 ]
> 
> Try this:
> while [ loops -ne 180 ]
> 
> I don't know why you need to use that notation, but at least it seems to work.

!= is for strings, -ne is for arithmetic.  *shrug*

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