<div>On 6/26/05, James Gray <<a href="mailto:james@grayonline.id.au">james@grayonline.id.au</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 07:13 am, Todd Deshane wrote: > When you want to compare strings use == > If you want to compare numbers you the -eq (equal) > -lt (less than) -le (less than or equal to) .... etc. > > so one of your conditions was something like: > > $num_tries != $max > instead it could be > > $num_tries -lt $max <PEDANT> The translation of "!=" is "not equal" which in bash scripting (comparing numbers) is "-ne", as opposed to "-lt" (less than) as stated above. Although I agree that "-lt" is probably better logic than "-ne" in the case of the OP's script. :) </PEDANT></blockquote><div> Glad you were pedant on this one, I am not a bash expert but can usually figure out or look up what I need, wasn't sure what not equals was, but knew that less than equals was better logic. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Cheers, James -- In Brooklyn, we had such great pennant races, it made the World Series just something that came later. -- Walter O'Malley, Dodgers owner -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users"> http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>Regards, Todd