I agree with Chella, it also worked for me, in that I did not get an expr error. I used the bash shell.
However, the sum was reported as zero. This is because a pipe-lined set of commands ( cat ... | while ... in your case) will be done in separate processes. This might be dependent on the shell; I have heard that the real Korn shell -- ksh -- does not exhibit this behavior. I tried it with pdksh and got a sum of zero. The variables in child processes are not available to the parent.
The usual solution to such a situation is to re-form the construction as:
Best wishes ... cheers, drl
i want to get a substring from a string and used such shell script:
var_year=`expr substr "07132006" 5 4`
echo $var_year
but i got such error message: expr: syntax error. why?
Note: Kshell used on solaris 8. :confused: (5 Replies)
Hi ALL,
i am so much confused y the following script is not working in the korn shel which works in bash shell. please solve the error that i am facing.
i want to extract the format of the size from a variable i.e. GB or KB or MB or B or BYTES
code:
--------
size_dir_pass=1.2gb... (2 Replies)
Need help with the following, I want to extract the digits from the following file pattern
using the expr command. digits are in the range 1-99
Tried two different methods, not sure what I am doing wrong.
file1=file1.dbf
file10=file10.dbf
Works for
expr "$file10" : '.*\(\)'
10
... (2 Replies)
Hi Friends
I have a compiler(Sun Forte,I believe) running in my Solaris 9 box.
since y'day my development team is finding this error when they compile:
ld.so.1: expr: fatal: libgmp.so.3: open failed: No such file or directory
I ran a search for this file and found it in one of my file... (2 Replies)
hello to everyone,
i am writing a shell script in unix and i use the following command:
lnum= cut -f 1 -d : aa
passline=`expr $lnum + 1`
echo "$passline"
with the following command i get the value that is stored in the first field of the file "aa" and i save it in the variable "lnum". i am... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
This is a piece of code from one of my scripts:
t1=`cat temp3.21447 | grep WEALTHTOUC_TRANS_20100409_233127.txt.txt.TRG | awk '{print $3}' | cut -c1-5`
t2=`cat temp3.21447 | grep WEALTHTOUC_TRANS_20100409_233127.txt.txt.TRG | awk '{print $5}' | cut -c1-5`
#t1=23:43... (5 Replies)
Hello, I am new to Shell programing.
I want to add two numbers & show result. command I use are as under
Echo Enter the two numbers
read number
d1 = ` expr $ num%10`
num = `expr $ num/10`
d2 = ` expr $ num%10`
num = `expr $ num/10`
sum = $ d1 + $ d2
echo the sum is $ sum
I am getting... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I'm writing a shell script in KSH, where I want to store the filename, total record count and actual record count of all the source files. The source files reside in 4 different sub-folders under the same root folder.
Below is code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I am new to shell/bash script. I am trying to run below script
#!/bin/bash
a=0
b=10
if
then
echo "a is equal to be"
else
echo "a is not equal to be"
fi
MAX=10
while
do
echo $a
a='expr $a + 1'
done (1 Reply)
Hi,
I tried to look up the issue i'm experiencing, but i'm confused what's wrong with my script.
After executing the script I'm getting the following error
expr: non-numeric argument
syntax error on line 1, teletype
After some research, it seems that the problem relates to bc.
I have... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: nms
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
sum
sum(1) User Commands sum(1)NAME
sum - print checksum and block count for a file
SYNOPSIS
sum [-r] [file]...
DESCRIPTION
The sum utility calculates and prints a 16-bit checksum for the named file and the number of 512-byte blocks in the file. It is typically
used to look for bad spots, or to validate a file communicated over some transmission line.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-r Use an alternate (machine-dependent) algorithm in computing the checksum.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
file A path name of a file. If no files are named, the standard input is used.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of sum when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of sum: LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES, and
NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned.
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
|Availability SUNWesu |
|CSI Enabled |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
SEE ALSO cksum(1), sum(1B), wc(1), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5)DIAGNOSTICS
Read error is indistinguishable from end of file on most devices. Check the block count.
NOTES
Portable applications should use cksum(1).
sum and usr/ucb/sum (see sum(1B)) return different checksums.
SunOS 5.11 7 Nov 1995 sum(1)