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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Non-integer argument in expr Post 302520538 by niasha on Sunday 8th of May 2011 02:08:57 AM
Old 05-08-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by ahamed101
How did you execute this? Arguments are 12 and 23 I guess, seems fine.

Try this, its all the same though
Code:
#!/bin/bash 
read  N1; read  N2
((sum=N1+N2))
echo $sum

regards,
Ahamed
thanks but i got this with this script

Code:
ehsan@debian:~$ telnet 192.168.1.4 1234
Trying 192.168.1.4...
Connected to 192.168.1.4.
Escape character is '^]'.
12 
23
")syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator (error token is "

Connection closed by foreign host.

both of this scripts work on my machine fine but when i want to use in on network with telnet they wont work , is there any config for telnet or is telnet change the argument to something else from integer ?
 

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IN.IDENTTESTD(8)						 Library functions						  IN.IDENTTESTD(8)

NAME
in.identtestd - a small daemon that can be used to test Ident servers SYNOPSIS
in.identtestd DESCRIPTION
in.identtestd is a small daemon (to be started from inetd) that does an ident lookup on you if you telnet into it. Can be used to verify that your Ident server is working correctly. The source code can be found in the debian libident source package, as ident-tester.c. EXAMPLE
A typical entry in /etc/inetd.conf would be: 9999 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/in.identtestd in.identtestd With the above entry in place and active, execute "telnet hostname 9999" from either this system, or another system. It should show some- thing like: Trying hostname... Connected to hostname. Escape character is '^]'. Welcome to the IDENT server tester, version 1.9 (Linked with libident 0.22 Debian) Connecting to Ident server at 192.168.1.1... Querying for lport 1109, fport 9999.... Reading response data... Userid response is: Lport........ 1109 Fport........ 9999 Opsys........ UNIX Charset...... <not specified> Identifier... paul Connection closed by foreign host. AUTHOR
Peter Eriksson <pen@lysator.liu.se> Manpage written for debian by Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org>. SEE ALSO
ident(3), identd(8), tcpd(8) 3rd Berkeley Distribution IN.IDENTTESTD(8)
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