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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Wrong test interpretation for simple function. Post 303012981 by RudiC on Tuesday 13th of February 2018 08:38:29 AM
Old 02-13-2018
You need to deploy "command substitution" as well for shell functions:
Code:
if [[ $( ip_quantity_check) -gt 0 ]] ...

OR use the function's exit code (which can be modified in the return statement) like
Code:
if ip_quantity_check; then ...

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test-speech(1)							   User Commands						    test-speech(1)

NAME
test-speech - a test application provided by gnome-speech DESCRIPTION
test-speech is a simple test application provided by gnome-speech. It is used to verify the driver for a speech engine, e.g., freetts-syn- thesis-driver, is funcioning properly, in order to make sure users can activate and interact with the gnome-speech driver successfully. GNOME Speech aims to be a general interface to various text-to-speech engines for the GNOME desktop. It allows the simple speaking of text, as well as control over various speech parameters such as speech pitch, rate, and volume. FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/test-speech a test application provided by gnome-speech ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-a11y-speech | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
libgnomespeech(3), attributes(5) NOTES
gnome-speech is written by Marc Mulcahy and Michael Meeks. SunOS 5.11 3 Dec 2006 test-speech(1)
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