10-07-2009
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Originally Posted by
robsonde
I don't think you can do the $(( syntax in bourne shell...
my code was written for bourne shell as we dont run ksh or bash in our network.
It runs in the standard Unix shell, which is a POSIX shell.
The Bourne shell is obsolete, and, while a few systems still have a Bourne shell in /bin/sh, they will also have a conforming shell.
The conforming shell may not be either ksh or bash.
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