OT:korn shell and arithmetic

  • From: ryan.gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:06:03 +0000

I don't know any unix listservs... so I hope this is ok.

I am trying to do the following:

if [ 1.2 -gt 1.0 ]; then
   echo yes
else echo no
fi

It alwys comes out no? Anyway to get around this? 

Also when I do:

expr 0 + 0, I get a $? of 1, which kills my error handling. any idea why? 
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