compareNumbers -- performs comaparison between two numbers

NAME

compareNumbers -- performs comaparison between two numbers compareNumbers - OSIRIS library of scripts

SYNOPSIS

compareNumbers arg1 operand arg2

DESCRIPTION

compareNumbers is a wrapper for "echo ... | bc -lm".
compares arg1 with arg2 using operand, which must
be one of >, <, >=, <=, ==, !=.
returns 1 if comparison is true, 0 if false.

OPTIONS

EXAMPLES

compareNumbers 2.2 ">" 2.3 returns 0
compareNumbers 2.3 ">" 2.2 returns 1
compareNumbers 2.3 "<" 2.3 returns 0
compareNumbers 2.3 ">" 2.3 returns 0
compareNumbers 2.3 ">=" 2.3 returns 1
compareNumbers 2.3 == 2.3 returns 1
compareNumbers 2.3 != 2.3 returns 0

See Also

The shell script compareNumbers
OSIRIS script index

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Last modified: Wed Sep 23 15:56:09 2020