diff --git a/src/wgd.sh b/src/wgd.sh
index 2eec14c..eb0a706 100755
--- a/src/wgd.sh
+++ b/src/wgd.sh
@@ -20,7 +20,11 @@ help () {
 install_wgd(){
     minimum_python_version=3.7
     python_version=$(python3 -c 'import sys; print(".".join(map(str, sys.version_info[0:2])))')
-    echo $python_version>$minimum_python_version
+    if [ $python_version \> $minimum_python_version]
+      then echo "true"
+    else
+      echo "false"
+    fi