On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > That's why constructs like: > > [[ 1 < a ]]; echo $? > > work. Incidentally, *any* number will evaluate to less than "a" in > lexicographic sort order, so this can be used as another valid test for > integers, and will be faster since it doesn't require spawning another > process the way egrep does.
that will only detect if a string *starts* with at least one integer. rday -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
