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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Comparing two numbers with decimal point Post 302369408 by Scrutinizer on Sunday 8th of November 2009 05:47:29 AM
Old 11-08-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by ahmad.diab
Code:
bash and posix expression didn't work for me!!!!..I have the below OS.

SunOS server2 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u sparc SUNW,Netra-210

Bash I am not surprised since I gather that is not a happy marriage with Solaris (is it even installed on your system?). However the problem with posix compliant version puzzles me. What is the output of this command on your system:
Code:
echo "12.13>12.14"|bc; echo "12.14>12.13"|bc

 

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ctsmc(7D)							      Devices								 ctsmc(7D)

NAME
ctsmc - System Management Controller driver DESCRIPTION
The ctsmc system management controller driver is a multithreaded, loadable, clonable STREAMS hardware driver that supports communication with the system management controller device on SUNW,NetraCT-410, SUNW,NetraCT-810 and SUNW,Netra-CP2300 platforms. The smc device provides a Keyboard Controller Style (KCS) interface as described in the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) Version 1.5 specification. The ctsmc driver enables user-land and kernel-land clients to access services provided by smc hardware. FILES
/dev/ctsmc ctsmc special character device /platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/sparcv9/ctsmc 64 bit ELF kernel driver ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Architecture |SPARC | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcar.u | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5) STREAMS Programmers Guide Writing Device Drivers Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI). Version 1.5 - PICMIG, February, 2001 SunOS 5.11 7 Dec 2003 ctsmc(7D)
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