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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [: 2016-02-29: integer expression expected Post 302973008 by Don Cragun on Thursday 12th of May 2016 03:12:35 PM
Old 05-12-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
Since they're YYYY-MM-DD strings, you could also just compare them as strings.

Code:
if [ "$STRING1" "<" "$STRING2" ]
then
...
fi

You must put quotes around < > etc. or they will be taken as redirection operators.
That will work with some shells (and with some versions of the stand-alone
Code:
test

/[ utilities), but the only string comparison operators defined for test in the standards are = and !=.

We know that the submitter is using /bin/sh, but that isn't enough to know what operating system is being used nor what shell has been designated as /bin/sh on the submitter's system.
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STRCASECMP(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 					     STRCASECMP(3)

NAME
strcasecmp, strncasecmp -- compare strings, ignoring case LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS
#include <strings.h> int strcasecmp(const char *s1, const char *s2); int strncasecmp(const char *s1, const char *s2, size_t len); DESCRIPTION
The strcasecmp() and strncasecmp() functions compare the nul-terminated strings s1 and s2 and return an integer greater than, equal to, or less than 0, according to whether s1 is lexicographically greater than, equal to, or less than s2 after translation of each corresponding character to lower-case. The strings themselves are not modified. The comparison is done using unsigned characters, so that '200' is greater than ''. The strncasecmp() compares at most len characters. SEE ALSO
bcmp(3), memcmp(3), strcmp(3), strcoll(3), strxfrm(3) HISTORY
The strcasecmp() and strncasecmp() functions first appeared in 4.4BSD. NOTES
If len is zero strncasecmp() returns always 0. BSD
June 9, 1993 BSD
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