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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting If Condition Issue in UNIX Post 302841445 by Pete.kriya on Wednesday 7th of August 2013 12:01:13 PM
Old 08-07-2013
The -gt is giving me an unknown operator error

---------- Post updated at 11:49 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:47 AM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by wisecracker
Code:
if [ $actual_size -gt $FILE_SIZE ]

Hello WiseCraker

THis gives me unknown operator error

---------- Post updated at 11:59 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:49 AM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by wisecracker
Code:
if [ $actual_size -gt $FILE_SIZE ]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Just Ice
your actual_size=`du $file` is giving you more data than you expect ... see 2nd line for fix ...
Code:
root@solarisgeek # du /etc/shadow
4     /etc/shadow
root@solarisgeek # du /etc/shadow | awk '{print $1}'
4
root@solarisgeek #

hello Iceguy
Thanks this helped me a lot SmilieSmilie

---------- Post updated at 12:01 PM ---------- Previous update was at 11:59 AM ----------

hi Wise Craker

This worked with Quotes
"$var" -gt "$var1"
 

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