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Negation in a condition triggers error message


From: Adam Vodopjan
Subject: Negation in a condition triggers error message
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 03:21:21 +0300
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I'm on grub 2.06 in ubuntu 22.04


grub> [ a -gt 9 ]; echo $?

1
grub> [ ! a -gt 9 ]; echo $?
error: unrecognized number.
0

grub> [ a -lt 9 ]; echo $?
error: unrecognized number.
0
grub> [ ! a -lt 9 ]; echo $?
1

grub> [ a -eq 9 ]; echo $?
1
grub> [ ! a -eq 9 ]; echo $?
error: unrecognized number.
0


Why does it show/hide the error depending on the negation? Evidently, the error
should be shown each time, one of the args is not a number in each example.





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