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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to get the modified value of variable outside the while loop reading from a file Post 302335629 by babusek on Monday 20th of July 2009 05:54:38 AM
Old 07-20-2009
How to get the modified value of variable outside the while loop reading from a file

Hi Friends ,
Sorry if this is a repeated question ,

Quote:
count=0
i=0
while read line
do
i=`expr $i + 1`
count= `expr $count + $i`
done < input.txt

echo " i Value =$i "
echo " Count Value = $count"
The input file contains 5 lines , so the the values of the variables i and count should b
i=5;
count=15

but the variables are not updating , the value of variables showing i=0 and count =0 only.Smilie
can any1 help me please.
 

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timer_getoverrun(3)					     Library Functions Manual					       timer_getoverrun(3)

NAME
timer_getoverrun - Obtains the overrun count for a specified timer LIBRARY
Realtime Library (librt.so, librt.a) SYNOPSIS
include <time.h> int timer_getoverrun ( timer_t timerid ); PARAMETERS
timerid The timer for which to return the overrun count. DESCRIPTION
The timer_getoverrun function returns the overrun count for a specified timer. The count contains the number of extra timer expirations that occurred between the time the signal was queued and when it was delivered, up to but not including the implementation-defined maximum DELAYTIMER_MAX. RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, the timer_getoverrun function returns the overrun count for the timer specified. If the timer overrun count is equal to or greater than DELAYTIMER_MAX, the overrun count is set to DELAYTIMER_MAX. If the function fails, it returns -1 and sets errno to indicate the type of error that occurred. ERRORS
The timer_getoverrun function fails under the following condition: [EINVAL] The specified clock ID is not defined. RELATED INFORMATION
Functions: clock_getres(3), clock_gettime(3), clock_settime(3), timer_delete(3), timer_gettime(3), timer_settime(3) Guide to Realtime Programming delim off timer_getoverrun(3)
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