[NTLUG:Discuss] basic Bash question
    Lance Simmons 
    lance at lsimmons.net
       
    Tue Aug  3 10:45:47 CDT 2004
    
    
  
* brad angelcyk <bradangelcyk at yahoo.com> [040803 10:37]:
>
> Could you just use test?
> 
> $ test 1 -gt 0
> $ test a -gt 0
> bash: test: a: integer expression expected
Now that you mention it, it _is_ that simple, because that's how I've
known I sometimes didn't have an integer.  I just didn't think to turn
that into a test. :(
Thanks!
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