Timeline for How to compare two floating point number in a shell script
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| May 6, 2017 at 21:10 | comment | added | Adrian Günter | GNU expr only supports arithmetic comparison on integers. Your example uses lexicographical comparison which will fail on negative numbers. For example, expr 1.09 '<' -1.1 will print 1 and exit with 0 (success). | |
| Aug 4, 2015 at 13:13 | history | edited | sam_pan_mariusz | CC BY-SA 3.0 | style |
| Aug 3, 2015 at 5:33 | history | answered | sam_pan_mariusz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |