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Old 05-07-2012
What Operating System and version are you running?
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Old 05-08-2012
I am using GNU Linux.

The error I am seeeing is

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/path/program.sh: line 357: [[: 1.3: syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator (error token is ".3")

# 10  
Old 05-08-2012
And as other's have asked, what Shell are you using? If it is not bash, is bash available?
# 11  
Old 05-08-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by jacobs.smith
I am using GNU Linux.

The error I am seeeing is

Code:
/path/program.sh: line 357: [[: 1.3: syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator (error token is ".3")

BASH, and bourne shells in general, do not support floating point numbers. The only shell which does is ksh.
# 12  
Old 05-08-2012
Interesting, it even seems to work with the bourne shell on my Solaris system. I bet there is a typo or other code validating those variables.
Code:
#!/bin/sh

a=1.3
b=-0.5

if [ $a -le 0 ] || [ $b -ge 1 ]; then
  echo Hello
else
  echo Goodbye
fi

exit 0

$ x
Goodbye
$ ## 
$ ## switch the numbers around:
$ ##
$ cat x
#!/bin/sh

a=-0.5
b=1.3

if [ $a -le 0 ] || [ $b -ge 1 ]; then
  echo Hello
else
  echo Goodbye
fi

exit 0
$ x
Hello
$

# 13  
Old 05-08-2012
Code:
$ cat floattest2
#!/bin/sh
a=-0.5
b=1.3

if [ $a -le 0 ] || [ $b -ge 1 ]; then
  echo Hello
else
  echo Goodbye
fi


a=-0.5
b=1.3

if [ $a -lt 0 ] || [ $b -gt 1 ]; then
  echo Hello 2
else
  echo Goodbye 2
fi

Code:
$ ./floattest2
Hello
Goodbye 2

So it only seemed to working in Bourne shell on Solaris, but that is because for this shell -0.5 is equal to 0 and 1.3 is equal to 1...

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 05-08-2012 at 08:03 PM..
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# 14  
Old 05-08-2012
/bin/sh isn't necessarily pure bourne shell, that's all you can depend on it being if you want it to be portable though. Might it actually end up being ksh here?
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