1. Programming

Hi .. I have a file which contains a list of numbers like.. 1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022,2023,2024,2025,2026,2027, 2028,2029,2030,2031,2032,2115,2116,2117,2118,2119,2120,2121,2122,2123,2124,2125,2126,2127,2128,2129,2130,2131,2132,... (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have two variables like below.. ETIMEHR =03 #END TIME HOUR ETIMEMIN=02 #END TIME MIN Now I'm converting the min to hour by deviding it by 60 ETIMEMINCONV=`echo "scale=2; $ETIMEMIN/60" | bc` but when i print ETIMEMINCONV instead of getting... (6 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello! Im trying to divid the numbers inputed by <STDIN> by 2. This is what I have: print "The input array divided by 2 is as follows:\n"; foreach ((@userArray)/2) {print} But it is not dividing by 2? Any help is valuable!! Ben (3 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi! Is there an easy way (maybe using awk??) to divide the values of one column of the file by it's first entry.. If I have a column: 3 4 5 6 7 I would like to divide it by 3. I want to do this for more than 100 files, so it wouldn't be practical to open file by file and... (26 Replies)

5. Red Hat

Hi, I have a simple question : how to disable screen lock and/or sreen saver with command line with RHEL5.4 ? (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a file containing 28048 lines and I would like to split it into a a file with 3506 lines and 8 columns? In column 1, I would like to have the first 3506 lines, in columns 2 the second 3506 lines and so on. I've been looking around in the forum but I found very specific cases. Is... (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I do have a very simple task to divide 2 variables and display the result. I CANNOT use bc when i try var1=2 var2=4 var3=$(($var1 / $var2)) echo $var3 the output is always 0 What can I change to get a dotted decimal result such as 0.5 ? Thanks! (5 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have written this code the division of two numbers and multiply it by hundred (to get the percent) echo "script running for the 1st time" cp value_directory_present.txt /home/mysql_cnbc/value_directory_past.txt rm -f test6.txt value_directory_present.txt else y1=`awk '{print $1}'... (5 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I made a screen within a screen. Is there a way to move the inner screen up one level so that it is at the same level as the first screen running from the shell? (2 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Does anyone know how to include as a script maybe an "echo" warning that explains that if a user uses the second number "zero" when dividing, that the result will BE "zero." I need, example: 5/0 (second number) = 0, in script form. current script: echo "Enter a number" read num1 echo... (4 Replies)