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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting if returns "unknown test operator" Post 302310425 by TonyFullerMalv on Friday 24th of April 2009 05:58:45 PM
Old 04-24-2009
"=" is for comparing strings so running a set of commands that pulls out the version number thus:
Code:
if [ "`string of command to get version number`" = "1.11" ]; then

should be okay.
I don't know why you have an echo.

"-eq" compares integer numbers so could not compare 1.11 with anything.

I am not sure of any shell that would accept "eq" instead of "-eq"?
 

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