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Old 04-13-2012
Redirecting errors of test command
Hello, Unix-Board!

Normally, I would hide error messages in a shell script with
Code:
command 2> path

but test also prints out errors if I do that.

The code of the script is (please don't tell me about bad coding Smilie):

Code:
echo "Enter a number here"
read number
test $number -ge 0 && echo "Thank you" && sleep 1 && exit
test $number -le 0 && echo "Thank you" && sleep 1 && exit || echo "This is not a number"

With this, I test if somebody entered a letter. Test does that well but it also prints out "illegal number [ letter i typed ]"
and then displays the expected message.

Where do I have to place the 2> to supress this?

Thanks in advance,

intelinside
Last edited by fpmurphy; 04-13-2012 at 03:34 PM..
# 2  
Old 04-13-2012
Sorry, but you cannot redirect a syntax error. A numeric test expects a number. Also beware that you script had something after exit which was not going to execute.
First eliminate the non-numeric response. In this technique we try deleting all the numbers in the response and see if there is anything left (which would mean the answer was non-numeric).
(if -z is the same as test -z but modern convention).

Code:
echo "Enter a number here"
read number
if [ -z "`echo $number | tr -d [0-9]`" ]
then
            echo "Thank you"
            sleep 1
else
            echo "This is not a number"
            sleep 1
            exit
fi
# Continue processing $number here

# The next line is the last line
exit

# 3  
Old 04-14-2012
Okay, I read some man pages about the
Code:
tr -d

command you use in your script and I think it is
is exactly what I need. Thank you!
Last edited by intelinside; 04-14-2012 at 08:22 AM..
 
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