Unix Shell - Re: how to test two strings (which are numbers) for numeric

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Re: how to test two strings (which are numbers) for numeric

loki harfagr

2007-09-28, 7:30 am

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:07:05 -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:

> On 2007-09-27, Loki Harfagr wrote:
>
> That's not risky; it's just not portable.

Which is the very reason why in my admin life I quickly
had to find out I'd better consider it risky :-)
Now, in my normal user life I consider it has an easier
look for my eyes but at home I'm not continuousky jumping
from one OS style to another.

Anyway you were right to make the precision, as some users would've
been curious about how a syntax could be "risky"!