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Old 03-05-2008
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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That is ksh the (( .. )) construct: it is equivalent to let for arithmetic operations.

$(( .. )) lets you assign the result to a variable.

see man ksh for more information.