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Re: >= and <= for string comparison


From: alex xmb ratchev
Subject: Re: >= and <= for string comparison
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 09:22:21 +0100

On Wed, Jan 18, 2023, 9:21 AM Lawrence Velázquez <vq@larryv.me> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 18, 2023, at 3:13 AM, alex xmb ratchev wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 18, 2023, 9:12 AM Lawrence Velázquez <vq@larryv.me> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2023, at 7:59 PM, Ruiyang Peng wrote:
> >> > It seems that bash's lexical is not so easy to change, so how about
> using
> >> > -eq, -gt, -lt etc like arithmetic?
> >>
> >> Huh?  Those operators are already defined to perform arithmetic
> >> comparisons.  How could they be used for lexicographic comparisons
> >> too?
> >>
> >> --
> >> vg
> >>
> >
> > in ((
>
> What?  Lexicographic comparison in ((...))?  What is that even
> supposed to mean?
>
> > and in [[
>
> Er, yeah.  That's what has been under discussion this whole time.
> I'm saying [[ x -eq y ]] and friends already have established
> purposes.
>
> --
> vq
>

a o .. k .. sry .. thx

>


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