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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting expr: Integer argument too large Post 302266370 by methyl on Wednesday 10th of December 2008 05:08:20 AM
Old 12-10-2008
It is possible that your script has defined the variable "value" as an integer (typeset -i value). The shell integer variables cannot hold very large numbers. Just hold them in a character field. Also, most versions of "expr" cannot deal with very large numbers.

To ensure that your variable "value" is a character variable "unset" it.

size=1000000
unset value
value=`echo "$size * (1024 ^ 6)"|bc`
echo $value
1152921504606846976000000
 

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unset(n)						       Tcl Built-In Commands							  unset(n)

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NAME
unset - Delete variables SYNOPSIS
unset ?-nocomplain? ?--? ?name name name ...? _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
This command removes one or more variables. Each name is a variable name, specified in any of the ways acceptable to the set command. If a name refers to an element of an array then that element is removed without affecting the rest of the array. If a name consists of an array name with no parenthesized index, then the entire array is deleted. The unset command returns an empty string as result. If -nocom- plain is specified as the first argument, any possible errors are suppressed. The option may not be abbreviated, in order to disambiguate it from possible variable names. The option -- indicates the end of the options, and should be used if you wish to remove a variable with the same name as any of the options. If an error occurs, any variables after the named one causing the error are not deleted. An error can occur when the named variable does not exist, or the name refers to an array element but the variable is a scalar, or the name refers to a variable in a non-existent namespace. EXAMPLE
Create an array containing a mapping from some numbers to their squares and remove the array elements for non-prime numbers: array set squares { 1 1 6 36 2 4 7 49 3 9 8 64 4 16 9 81 5 25 10 100 } puts "The squares are:" parray squares unset squares(1) squares(4) squares(6) unset squares(8) squares(9) squares(10) puts "The prime squares are:" parray squares SEE ALSO
set(n), trace(n), upvar(n) KEYWORDS
remove, variable Tcl 8.4 unset(n)
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