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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting syntax problem Post 102147 by blowtorch on Thursday 16th of March 2006 03:17:54 AM
Old 03-16-2006
I dont think that csh supports direct math operations. You would have to use expr to do any math. And then expr does not support non integer operations.

Try doing something like this:
Code:
set val = 230
echo $val
set tmp = `echo 0.1 \* $val + 300|bc`
echo $tmp

 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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