Compare negative numbers in bash [duplicate]

Answer 1

Seems to work correctly:

if [[ "-2" -gt "-1" ]]; then
    echo "-2 >-1"
else
    echo "-2 <=-1"
fi

Output:

-2 <=-1

You might want to use ((...)) which enables the expression to be evaluated according to rules of Shell Arithmetic.

$ ((-2 <= -1)) && echo Smaller or equal || echo Larger
Smaller or equal
$ ((-2 <= -3)) && echo Smaller or equal || echo Larger
Larger