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:
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
1 Replies
LEARN ABOUT OSX
sum
sum(n) Cyclic Redundancy Checks sum(n)
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________NAME
sum - Calculate a sum(1) compatible checksum
SYNOPSIS
package require Tcl 8.2
package require sum ?1.1.0?
::crc::sum ?-bsd | -sysv? ?-format fmt? ?-chunksize size? [ -filename file | -channel chan | string ]
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
This package provides a Tcl-only implementation of the sum(1) command which calculates a 16 bit checksum value from the input data. The
BSD sum algorithm is used by default but the SysV algorithm is also available.
COMMANDS
::crc::sum ?-bsd | -sysv? ?-format fmt? ?-chunksize size? [ -filename file | -channel chan | string ]
The command takes string data or a file name or a channel and returns a checksum value calculated using the sum(1) algorithm. The
result is formatted using the format(n) specifier provided or as an unsigned integer (%u) by default.
OPTIONS -sysv The SysV algorithm is fairly naive. The byte values are summed and any overflow is discarded. The lowest 16 bits are returned as the
checksum. Input with the same content but different ordering will give the same result.
-bsd This algorithm is similar to the SysV version but includes a bit rotation step which provides a dependency on the order of the data
values.
-filename name
Return a checksum for the file contents instead of for parameter data.
-channel chan
Return a checksum for the contents of the specified channel. The channel must be open for reading and should be configured for
binary translation. The channel will no be closed on completion.
-chunksize size
Set the block size used when reading data from either files or channels. This value defaults to 4096.
-format string
Return the checksum using an alternative format template.
EXAMPLES
% crc::sum "Hello, World!"
37287
% crc::sum -format 0x%X "Hello, World!"
0x91A7
% crc::sum -file sum.tcl
13392
AUTHORS
Pat Thoyts
BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK
This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems. Please report such in the category crc of
the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883]. Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for
either package and/or documentation.
SEE ALSO
cksum(n), crc32(n), sum(1)KEYWORDS
checksum, cksum, crc, crc32, cyclic redundancy check, data integrity, security, sum
CATEGORY
Hashes, checksums, and encryption
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2002, Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
crc 1.1.0 sum(n)