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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Comparing Negative #'s in IF Statements Post 302248445 by joeyg on Friday 17th of October 2008 04:36:27 PM
Old 10-17-2008
Hammer & Screwdriver

I did not check for decimals. I think the decimal will cause a problem since the -gt or -lt is expecting integers.

I only worked on you comment about negatives.

My comment about brackets was in the writing of the or statement.
You had [ this -o that ]
I had [ this ] || [that ]
 

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ROTATE(1)						      General Commands Manual							 ROTATE(1)

NAME
rotate - Rotate, mirror, and transpose JPEG images (losslessly whenever possible) SYNOPSIS
rotate { options } file [ file ... ] DESCRIPTION
rotate is a convenience frontend to jpegtran, allowing JPEG images to be rotated, mirrored, or transposed in several ways. These opera- tions are conducted losslessly (i.e., no image recompression) and keep all EXIF metadata intact. OPTIONS
-f, -flip, --flip {horizontal | vertical} horizontal: Mirror image horizontally (left-right). vertical : Mirror image vertically (top-bottom). -r, -rotate, --rotate {90 | 180 | 270} 90 : Rotate image 90 degrees clockwise. 180: Rotate image 180 degrees. 270: Rotate image 270 degrees clockwise (or 90 ccw). -tp, -transpose, --transpose Transpose image (across UL-to-LR axis). -tv, -transverse, --transverse] Transverse transpose (across UR-to-LL axis). SEE ALSO
jpegtran(1) AUTHOR
rotate is distributed as a component of jigl, written by Jason Paul <jigl@xome.net>. Its project page is located at http://xome.net/projects/jigl/. This manual page was adapted from the program help text by Nicholas Breen <nbreen@ofb.net> for the Debian project (but may be used by oth- ers). October 8, 2006 ROTATE(1)
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