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Old 07-01-2009
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Humm, I have looked at this shell script a few times and scratched my head.

You set the variable 'q' to a string
Code:
q="scale=3; $zpos"
yet you expect to be able to subtract a number from it
Code:
zposition=$q-$f
How is this meant to work?
Last edited by fpmurphy; 07-01-2009 at 09:12 PM.. Reason: fixed typo