Ne

Short for not equal, ne is an operator used in programming languages and in command line commands as an abbreviation for not equal to. For example, in programming languages such as Perl, you could type something similar to the below example.

if ($variable1 ne $variable2) { print "They are not the same"; }

In the above example, if contents in $variable1 is not equal to $variable2 then the program would print They are not the same.