I have no idea why I can't get this to work, if anybody can help i would appreciate it.
#!/bin/bash
x=`cat counter.txt | wc -l`
y= '$x / 7'
printf "%d People have visited this page" $y
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Hi,
I am new to unix and using linux 7.2. I would like to create a script that would make it easyer for me to run my java programms. At the moment I have to type java myJavaprogram
I am trying to write a script that will allow me to type something like this "myscript myJavaprogram" or maybe... (4 Replies)
I am begining to learn bourne shell and as a practice I have written a script which when given the purchase price and percentage of discount calculates the savings.
I somehow cannot figure out why my script fails to do arthimatic calculation on real numbers.
Could anyone look at the script... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Tirmazi
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Hello everybody,
I decided to take a Unix Introduction class and have never had experience with programming. Everything was fine until recently when the Prof. started shell scripting and he wants us to make a small script to add unlimited numbers from arguments and from standard input.
I... (1 Reply)
Hello everybody,
I decided to take a Unix Introduction class and have never had experience with programming. Everything was fine until recently when the Prof. started shell scripting and he wants us to make a small script to add unlimited numbers from arguments and from standard input.
I... (8 Replies)
I need help on arithmetic
root@server # hour=`date | awk {'print $4'} | cut -d: -f 1`; echo $hour
04
Now I subtract this result by 1 or 01 I get "3" as the answer. I need "03" as the answer, ie last two significant numbers should be there.
root@server # hour=`date | awk {'print $4'} | cut... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I need a help with arithmetic calculations in my script. I have two variables: a=17; b=1712
I want to perform ($a/$b)*100 with two decimals in the result.
I tried with following:
res=$((100*a/b))
res=`echo "scale=2; $a / $b" | bc`
But I am not getting the decimal values.... (4 Replies)
i am having a varialbe a , which is input to my file
i want to multiply this input with value .43, and assign it to variable b.
i tried it as below:
#!/bin/sh
a=$1
b=`expr $1\*0.43`
echo b=$b
error : expr: non-integer argument
Please tell me , how to do this.
Thanks (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: rishifrnds
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
echo
echo(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands echo(1B)NAME
echo - echo arguments to standard output
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/echo [-n] [argument]
DESCRIPTION
echo writes its arguments, separated by BLANKs and terminated by a NEWLINE, to the standard output.
echo is useful for producing diagnostics in command files and for sending known data into a pipe, and for displaying the contents of envi-
ronment variables.
For example, you can use echo to determine how many subdirectories below the root directory (/) is your current directory, as follows:
o echo your current-working-directory's full pathname
o pipe the output through tr to translate the path's embedded slash-characters into space-characters
o pipe that output through wc -w for a count of the names in your path.
example% /usr/bin/echo "echo $PWD | tr '/' ' ' | wc -w"
See tr(1) and wc(1) for their functionality.
The shells csh(1), ksh(1), and sh(1), each have an echo built-in command, which, by default, will have precedence, and will be invoked if
the user calls echo without a full pathname. /usr/ucb/echo and csh's echo() have an -n option, but do not understand back-slashed escape
characters. sh's echo(), ksh's echo(), and /usr/bin/echo, on the other hand, understand the black-slashed escape characters, and ksh's
echo() also understands a as the audible bell character; however, these commands do not have an -n option.
OPTIONS -n Do not add the NEWLINE to the output.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWscpu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO csh(1), echo(1), ksh(1), sh(1), tr(1), wc(1), attributes(5)NOTES
The -n option is a transition aid for BSD applications, and may not be supported in future releases.
SunOS 5.10 3 Aug 1994 echo(1B)