Hi, On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 11:12 PM, Rainer Dorsch <m...@bokomoko.de> 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?
You need to scape "<" and ">": if [ "abc" \> "dec" ] ; then ... ;fi if [ "abc" '>' "dec" ]; then ... ; fi if [ "abc" ">" "dec" ]; then ... ; fi Delete "dec" file, ( ">" is redirection in bash, so you was creating that file Regards
