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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers simple(?) if/else question Post 302568563 by astropi on Thursday 27th of October 2011 04:28:15 PM
Old 10-27-2011
simple(?) if/else question

Hello, I have a quick question that is not related to homework in any way shape or form (in case anyone wanted to know). My question is thus:

I have a file "temp" that has the two values say "5" and "3" (separated by a white space). Now, I want to simply write an if-else statement that reads file temp, and if $1 (5) is less than $2 (3) it prints OK, else NO. The values for $1 and $2 do change. My attempt is:
Code:
if [[ ($1 -lt $2) temp]]; 
    then echo "OK"
else 
    echo "NO"
fi;

Right now I'm getting a syntax error. Help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Last edited by Scott; 10-27-2011 at 05:34 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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