Re: Bash Question

From	Phil Wyett <philwyett@kathenas.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Bash Question
Date	2017-07-06 00:40 +0200
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On Wed, 2017-07-05 at 23:12 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> can anybody help to explain what is going on here ?
>  
>  
> rd@mohot:~$ echo $SHELL 
> /bin/bash 
> rd@mohot:~$ if [ "abc" > "dec" ]; then echo bad; fi       
> bad 
> rd@mohot:~$ if [ "abc" < "dec" ]; then echo good; fi 
> good 
> rd@mohot:~$ 
> 
> How can abc sort before and after dec at the same time?
>  
> Thanks
> Rainer
>  
>  
> -- 
> Rainer Dorsch
> http://bokomoko.de/


Hi,

Not sure what you are exactly trying to accomplish and you may need
to explain further.

If you want to basic string compare:

if [[ "abc" < "dec" ]]; then echo true; else echo false; fi

Regards

Phil

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