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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting if clause problem ..err is : integer expression expected Post 302358506 by cfajohnson on Friday 2nd of October 2009 06:57:56 PM
Old 10-02-2009
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Originally Posted by rxg
Hi

pls help me with this if clause , which is marked in red .

It gives me an error saying :-
[FONT=Courier][SIZE=2][FONT=Courier][SIZE=2]: integer expression expected
and it goes to the else part and writes output the WARNING STATEMENTS ..
the values of if [ "$rcInPAudit" = "$rcInP" ]; then
rcInPAudit and rcInP match each other exactly ..but it does not go the if part and gives an error (saying integer expression expected )

That if statement could not generate that error. The problem is elsewhere.
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COLORS(3)						   libbash colors Library Manual						 COLORS(3)

NAME
colors -- libbash library for setting tty colors. SYNOPSIS
colorSet <color> colorReset colorPrint [<indent>] <color> <text> colorPrintN [<indent>] <color> <text> DESCRIPTION
General colors is a collection of functions that make it very easy to put colored text on tty. The function list: colorSet Sets the color of the prints to the tty to COLOR colorReset Resets current tty color back to normal colorPrint Prints TEXT in the color COLOR indented by INDENT (without adding a newline) colorPrintN The same as colorPrint, but trailing newline is added Detailed interface description follows. Available colors: Green Red Yellow White The color parameter is non-case-sensitive (i.e. RED, red, ReD, and all the other forms are valid and are the same as Red). FUNCTIONS DESCRIPTIONS
colorSet <color> Sets the current printing color to color. colorReset Resets current tty color back to normal. colorPrint [<indent>] <color> Prints text using the color color indented by indent (without adding a newline). Parameters: <indent> The column to move to before start printing. This parameter is optional. If ommitted - start output from current cursor position. <color> The color to use. <color> The text to print. colorPrintN [<indent>] <color> The same as colorPrint, except a trailing newline is added. EXAMPLES
Printing a green 'Hello World' with a newline: Using colorSet: $ colorSet green $ echo 'Hello World' $ colorReset Using colorPrint: $ colorPrint 'Hello World'; echo Using colorPrintN: $ colorPrintN 'Hello World' AUTHORS
Hai Zaar <haizaar@haizaar.com> Gil Ran <gil@ran4.net> SEE ALSO
ldbash(1), libbash(1) Linux Epoch Linux
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