ok, i wrote a script called purge.sh
which i referred to in another thread. It prompts the user for a keyword and a username and then kills all of the entered username's processes containing that keyword. However before it does that it asks you how many searches you wish to perform and sets a variable to contain that number, i later use a while loop to repeat the script until that number equals 0. Everything works in the script except for that it just loops infinitely and i cant figure out why. my explanation is pretty vague but the code from the script should help so here it is:


#!/bin/bash
echo "Purge: Search for and kill target process(EVERYTHING'S case
sensitive"
echo " "
echo -n "Enter amount of times you wish to search or kill a targe
t process:"
read query_number
while [ $query_number > "0" ]; do
echo -n "Enter search terms for the target process:"
read search_terms
echo -n "Enter user running process('all' for everyone):"
read process_host
if [ $process_host != "all" ]; then
process_line=$(ps -U $process_host | grep $search_terms)
echo $process_line
kill $process_line
else
process_line=$(ps -axc | grep $search_terms)
kill $process_line
fi
$query_number=$query_number - "1"
done


can anyone figure out whats wrong?

thanks, Blip