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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Rules with using double parentheses in Bash Post 302495150 by cfajohnson on Wednesday 9th of February 2011 12:00:54 PM
Old 02-09-2011
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Originally Posted by lio123
Hi.could you explain me what are the rules when we are using double parentesis in if statement,if I put [ $# > 0 ],the code is working

That doesn't do what you think it does. (I made the same mistake when I first started shell scripting.)

The greater-than symbol, >, is a redirection operator, not a comparison operator (unless it is escaped, in which case it is string comparison, not numerical). What you need is:
Code:
[ $# -gt 0 ]

(I never use the non-standard (( ... )) syntax.)
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