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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting 3 numbers and return the maximum Post 302473466 by Franklin52 on Saturday 20th of November 2010 11:49:47 AM
Old 11-20-2010
You could do something like:
Code:
for i in $numb1 $numb2 $numb3 ; do
    echo "$i"
    if [ `echo "$i" | awk '{ print (int($0)==$0)}'` == 0 ]; then 
       echo "$i" is not numeric
       exit 1
    fi
    if [ $MAX -lt $i ] ; then
        MAX=$(echo $i)
    fi
done


Last edited by Franklin52; 11-20-2010 at 01:08 PM.. Reason: Edit: replaced $1 with $i
 

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