The greater-than sign is a mathematical symbol that denotes an inequality between two values. In Bourne shell, operator -lt means "less than".
Example for less than the inequality symbol is 5 < 10. ASCII does not have a much-less-than sign. means "greater than or equal to". Copy all common greater than symbols for use in emails, texts, letters, web pages. The first thing you have to remember is that "less than" symbol looks like the letter L ("less than" symbol is "<"). In BASIC, Lisp-family languages, and C-family languages (including Java and C++), operator < means "less than". [1], In PHP, operator <<