Shell Script 9: Conditions & If-Then Statements （a)

jtony@genoa:~/learn/shell$ cat ifthenelse.sh
#!/bin/bash

if test $1 -gt $2
  then
  echo "$1" is greater than "$2"
fi

echo "This comes after if-then unconditionally."
 

Here are some other numerical operators you may want to try out:

• -eq: equal to
• -ne: not equal to
• -lt: less than
• -le: less than or equal to
• -gt: greater than
• -ge: greater than or equal to