On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 13:59, R P Herrold <herrold at centos.org> wrote: > or for those who are used to being burned: > [ 0$NUMBEROFPRO -gt 150 ] Still going to explode if $NUMBEROFPRO contains spaces. Putting in double quotes will not help you either, since it will complain about it not being numeric... Doing math with the shell is always tricky, almost never robust... Filipe