Phil Scarratt wrote:
Have you tried if [ $ERRORNUM -ge 1 ]
Note the $ and the lack of quotes. This works for me in a backup script I have...(maybe I should check it first)
#ERRORNUM=0 ERRORNUM=`grepstuff $LOGTMP |totalerrors` echo $STATUS echo $ERRORNUM #if (( ERRORNUM >= 1 )) if [ $ERRORNUM -ge 1 ] #then let STATUS="$STATUS but with errors" then STATUS="$STATUS but with errors" else echo status screwed fi
gives me: 54 : integer expression expected status screwed
which is what I expected :( hrmm, maybe I should just learn perl instead :)
dave
OK. I've actually taken a look at my backup script and I've used test instead of []:
if test $ERRORNUM -ge 1; then
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