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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Strings comparing incorrectly Post 302620327 by Scrutinizer on Sunday 8th of April 2012 12:57:17 AM
Old 04-08-2012
Minor nitpick:
Code:
done < "$1"

Otherwise it will break for filenames with spaces or strange characters..


Quote:
Originally Posted by SCB
[..]So by the looks of it it's just replacing the value of the current word with the next one.[..]
It is keeping the one that is lexically greater. If somehow the shorter string were padded with leading spaces to make them equal length, then your comparison would work, if you enclosed both variables in double quotes. But doing so would involve knowing the length of the larger of the two variables and that's what you were set to find out in the first place Smilie

Code:
$ [[ "bbb" < "aaaa" ]] && echo hello
$ [[ " bbb" < "aaaa" ]] && echo hello
hello


Last edited by Scrutinizer; 04-08-2012 at 03:13 AM..
 

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