05-21-2008
shell script receiving variable and doing mathematical function
Hello,
Please help for the following scenario:
1. Shell Scipt should receive 2 variables values (say a and b).
2. Within shell script, there should be division of those numbers (a/b).
3. The result should be whole number i.e. in case the result comes out to be 9.4, it should be returned as 10.
What i have done is:
a=9
b=4
result=`echo $a $b | awk '{print $1/$2}'`
echo $result
But values of a and b should be passed as parameters to the script.
Kindly help.
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NAME
escape - escape shell special characters in a string
SYNOPSIS
escape string
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escape prepends a "" character to all shell special characters in string, making it safe to compose a shell command with the result.
EXAMPLES
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avenger(1),
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