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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Why doesn't this loop end? Post 302316985 by Breakology on Sunday 17th of May 2009 03:38:19 PM
Old 05-17-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
while [ $NUMBER -gt 0 ]
numeric comparison.
The output keeps running into negative integers forever, shouldn't the loop terminate once the condition of the variable becomes -le 0?
 

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