html - What character encoding is gt;? - Stack Overflow This might answer your question Basically it is HTML encoding for a few predefined characters Characters like gt; and amp; are HTML Entities specifically, they are Named HTML Entities
html - What do lt; and gt; stand for? - Stack Overflow I know that the entities lt; and gt; are used for < and >, but I am curious what these names stand for Does lt; stand for something like "Left tag" or is it just a code?
What is the gt for here? if [ $VARIABLE -gt 0 ]; then 2 -gt means "greater than", compared arithmetically [ is (peculiarly) an alias of test (with a mandatory last argument of ], to make it look like a pair of brackets)