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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Trying a arithmatic on a command line vs scripting. Post 302338236 by Franklin52 on Monday 27th of July 2009 10:33:17 AM
Old 07-27-2009
Try this:

Code:
A=20
B=50
C=$(( $A * $B ))
echo $C

Have a read of a scripting tutorial:

https://www.unix.com/answers-frequent...tutorials.html

Regards
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

       rkward [workspace_file] [--evaluate Rcode] [--debug-level level] [--debug-flags flags] [--debugger debugger_command] [KDE Generic Options]
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DESCRIPTION

       RKWard is the a KDE-based GUI and IDE for the R scripting language for statistical computing.

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