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Run below script it will give u output..

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count=`cat /filecount.txt | tail -1 |head -1| awk '{print $1}'`  ###file is having value 264  ####

echo "actual count = $count"

exact_count=`expr $count \* 24`

echo "exact_count= $exact_count"

diff=`expr "$exact_count" - "$count"`

a=`expr $exact_count - $count`

echo " value is a  $a"
echo "$diff"

Last edited by Franklin52; 04-26-2012 at 08:33 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags

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