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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu [: too many arguments Post 303032930 by jim mcnamara on Tuesday 26th of March 2019 11:31:54 PM
Old 03-27-2019
-eq is used for numbers not strings.

Try using double quotes and the equal sign:
Code:
if [ "$valueA" = "$valueB" ] ; then
   # do something here
fi

du -sh produces two strings, so I guess you want the first "number" which is an alphanumeric value.
Code:
$ du -sh $HOME
523M    /home/Owner

So if this is the case what do you actually want to compare? First value?
Last edited by jim mcnamara; 03-27-2019 at 12:38 AM..
 

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fstrcmp

fstrcmp(3)						     Library Functions Manual							fstrcmp(3)

NAME

       fstrcmp - fuzzy comparison of two strings

SYNOPSIS

       #include <fstrcmp.h>
       #define FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL
       #define FSTRCMP_THRESHOLD
       #define FSTRCMP_ERROR
       double fstrcmp(const char *string1, const char *string2);

DESCRIPTION

       The fstrcmp() function compares the two strings, string1 and string2.

RETURN VALUE

       The  fstrcmp  function  returns a floating point value between 0.0 and FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL.  A value of 0.0 means the strings are utterly un-
       alike.  A value of FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL means the strings are identical.  A value of more than FSTRCMP_THRESHOLD  (it  lies  between  0.0  and
       FSTRCMP_IDENTICAL) would be considered "similar" by most people.

       A value of FSTRCMP_ERROR (always negative) indicates a malloc(3) failure.

SEE ALSO

       fmemcmp(3)
	       fuzzy comparison of two memory areas

       fstrcasecmp(3)
	       fuzzy comparison of two strings ignoring case

       fstrcmpi(3)
	       fuzzy comparison of two strings

       strcmp(3)
	       compare two strings

COPYRIGHT

       fstrcmp version 0.4
       Copyright (C) 2009 Peter Miller
       Peter Miller <pmiller@opensource.org.au>

       The  comparison	code  is  derived  from the fuzzy comparison functions in GNU Gettext 0.17.  The GNU Gettext comparison functions were, in
       turn, derived from GNU Diff 2.7.

       Copyright (C) 1988-2009 Free Software Foundation

																	fstrcmp(3)
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