i got this script that is some kind of sortinf for a database and it goes through and finds pattern's using if statements as shown here now all the months in the year are like this this month[1]=jan month[2]=feb E.T.C. then below it says for x in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 so my guess is x will correspond for 1-12 right? Well below this declaration of x starts the if Example
if ["$x" -le <---------- this right here is my next question is there some standard rule for how you can use if statements like what i mean is if[-le <---- it knows what this -le means or is for i tried if --help man if google yahoo how does it and where does it explain what -le is for i dont know if this has to do with starting if statments or just unix understands -le cause i tried -le outside of an if statment says it dont know

if [ "$x" -le "$curr_month" ]

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