On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 11:51:41AM -0400, Eric C. Cooper wrote: > You need to use [ ... != 0 ] if you want to treat the text output of > a command like `wc -l` as a number. Actually, != is still doing string comparison (which is OK here). But when it matters, use -ne, -lt, -gt, etc. to compare integers. -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u