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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting BASH: Factorial using FOR loop not working Post 302438002 by Technext on Saturday 17th of July 2010 07:58:09 AM
Old 07-17-2010
Thanks DeCoTwc & alister for your inputs!

@DeCoTwc: I tried your method but those braces also did not work. I got a similar error message.
Code:
/home/gc> bash unix1_fact.sh 5
 unix1_fact.sh: syntax error near unexpected token `(('
 unix1_fact.sh: unix1_fact.sh: line 5: `for (( number = 1; number <= $1 ; number++ ))'

Looks like the bash I am trying on is too old to understand even your suggested syntax. Smilie

I tried the same code on newer bash and it worked fine. Anyways, thanks for your input.

@alister: Your method was working fine. Thank You!

I also tried awk; it also works fine on my old bash version.


Regards,
GC
 

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