[NBLUG/talk] shell scripting help

[gandalf at sonic.net]

Isn't that completely reversed from perl/php?

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 On Tue 10/06/08  3:28 PM , Bill Kendrick nbs at sonic.net sent:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 03:05:14PM -0700, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Sean seanvanco
> @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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> -bill!
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