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Old 12-06-2007
sachin.gangadha sachin.gangadha is offline
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to check variable if its non numeric
if test $b -ne [0-9]
then
echo "\n\n\n\tPassword reset has been done successfully"
else
echo "\n\n\n\tAn error occurred"
fi

i want to check whether $b is non-numeric so how to do that?