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Old 06-29-2009
tintin72 tintin72 is offline
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Originally Posted by jayan_jay View Post
Try this and change according to ur variables.

echo "scale=4;$b+$c" | bc
I'm not sure I understand you. Doing
Code:
echo "$zposition" |bc

returns the correct output. But doing
Code:
echo "sl$[n]_z$[zposition].txt"

does not. This is my problem.