Thank you
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 7:27 PM, Bryan O'Neal <
Bryan.ONeal@theonealandassociates.com> wrote:
> You can also use let, which may make more sense
> let "myVar=$myVar+1"
> As for floating point you need something like bc to handle that
> myVar=5.4
> myOtherVar=3.1
> myVar=$(echo "scale=2; ($myVar + 3.14) / $myOtherVar" | bc)
> echo $myVar
> If ran the above would print 2.75
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 7:15 PM, der.hans <PLUGd@lufthans.com> wrote:
>
>> Am 02. Mär, 2015 schwätzte Michael Havens so:
>>
>> moin moin Mike,
>>
>> see the Arithmetic Expansion portion of the bash man page for details.
>>
>> $((expression))
>>
>> That says to evaluate the expression and substitute the result. Remember
>> that the shell only does interger math, no decimals.
>>
>> :) ~$ echo $(( 4 / 2 ))
>> 2
>> :) ~$ echo $(( 4 / 3 ))
>> 1
>> :) ~$ echo $(( 4 * 3 ))
>> 12
>> :) ~$
>>
>> Note that you don't need to escape the * when using arithmetic expansion
>> because the $(( )) is already quoting.
>>
>> ciao,
>>
>> der.hans
>>
>>
>> just starting with this so please, bear with me....
>>>
>>> Anyways I am looking at this beginner's script:
>>>
>>> #! /bin/bash
>>> myvar=0
>>> while [ $myvar -ne 20 ]
>>> do
>>> echo $myvar
>>> myvar=$(( $myvar + 1 ))
>>> done
>>>
>>> Now my mind can wrap itself around everything in this script except for
>>> tis
>>> line:
>>>
>>> myvar=$(( $myvar + 1 ))
>>>
>>> Where my difficulty arises is why the '$' before the '(('?
>>> (it was geast fun running that script with a minus sign instead!)
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
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