Shell NAN?

Okay guys, I made a naïve script to test if a number was positive/zero/negative.


#!/bin/sh
if [ $1 -lt 0 ]
then echo "$1 is negative"
elif [ $1 -eq 0 ]
  then echo "$1 is 0"
  else echo "$1 is positive"
fi

And I wanted to make it more robust. How can I test if the argument provided is a valid number?

>>15-18
I'm just disappointed that there is no such thing as the "grep trick".