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Old 03-21-2002
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mathematics in shell script

Hi Friends,

I am new to shell scripting and a trying to work this out.

I have a variable called $number.
The value in this variable is 10

I want to display $number - 2 in a mail. The result would be 8

eg.

mail -s 'subject' user <<eof
the result of your calculation is $number - 2
eof

I should be mailed :
the result of your calculation is 8

can someone please give me the syntax.

likewise, I would like to know how to do it with echo

echo $number -2

8

Thanks in advance

Suresh
 

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