ate the minus sign and the colon with a space.
<code>${string:position} </code>
Extracts substring from $string at $position.
... onal parameters, [1] starting at $position.
<code>${string:position:length}</code>
Extracts $length characters of substring from ... nal parameters, starting at second.
</code>
<code>expr substr $string $position $length </code>
Extracts $length characters from $string start... name, without the leading dashes.
Returns with code zero if the string is a long option without argument, else returns with code one.
An option must be of the form --option, onl
nteger comparison ====
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-eq
is equal to
<code> if [ "$a" -eq "$b" ]</code>
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-ne
is not equal to
<code> if [ "$a" -ne "$b" ]</code>
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-gt
is greater than
<code> if [ "$a" -gt "$b" ]</code>
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-ge
is greater than or equal to
<code>if [ "$a" -ge "$b" ]</code>
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-lt
is less than
<code>if [ "$a" -lt "$b" ]</