Re: stupid shell tricks again

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 02:48:26PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> for i in `cut -f1 $wdirect/users-homes`; do if [ $i > $size_plateau ];
> then `echo $i`; fi; done

I think you want '-gt' instead of '>'. > is a shell metacharacter,
remember. See test(1) for other operators and more info.

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