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It's important to understand that these use shell "globbing" rather than "regular expressions" to match these patterns. Naturally a simple string like "txt" wi... card in your pattern.
A simple example of using these operators comes in the common question of copying... ectory.
Another interesting thing we can do with these "parameter expansion" features is to iterate over... )
Here we see the parentheses used to isolate the contents in a subshell -- su
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<
is less than (within double parentheses)
<code>(("$a" < "$b"))</code>
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//<=//
is less than or equal to (within double parentheses)
<code>(("$a" <= "$b"))</code>
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>
is greater than (within double parentheses)
<code>(("$a" > "$b"))</code>
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//>=//
is greater than or equal to (within double parentheses)
<code>(("$a" >= "$b"))</code>
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