OT:korn shell and arithmetic

From: <ryan.gaffuri_at_comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:06:03 +0000
Message-Id: <062220041706.16000.40D866FB0000595200003E802200751150079D9A00000E09D2020E979D@comcast.net>

I don't know any unix listservs... so I hope this is ok.

I am trying to do the following:

if [ 1.2 -gt 1.0 ]; then

   echo yes
else echo no
fi

It alwys comes out no? Anyway to get around this?

Also when I do:

expr 0 + 0, I get a $? of 1, which kills my error handling. any idea why?

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