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Re: >= and <= for string comparison


From: Lawrence Velázquez
Subject: Re: >= and <= for string comparison
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 03:20:47 -0500
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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



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