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Ceck if the variable lies in a particular range [message #231222]

Mon, 16 April 2007 01:22

lalit.thawani
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Registered: April 2007

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Hi All..

I have a variable "a" with a numeral value.
How do i check if it lies between say 1 to 9 or not in a Unix script

Thanks in Advance

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Re: Ceck if the variable lies in a particular range [message #231271 is a reply to message #231222]

Mon, 16 April 2007 02:58

rleishman
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Registered: October 2005
Location: Melbourne, Australia

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I assume you are talking about shell scripts.

I don't believe shell supports decimal values - only integers.

You can use typeset to enforce the variable is a number.

typeset -i a

Now that you know it is an integer, you can perform numeric comparisons.

if [ $a -ge 1 ] && [ $a -le 9 ] then
   do_something
fi

Alternatively, you can pipe the variable into and awk or a perl script. I try to avoid this as it launches a whole new process. It's very inefficient inside a loop.

Ross Leishman

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