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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell script that runs a random shell script Post 302534028 by ifthanwhile on Sunday 26th of June 2011 04:20:25 PM
Old 06-26-2011
I had not even thought of it that way (I guess I am so used to modifying my scripts under development I was not thinking about easy changing). I do have one question for you though agama I am fairly new to shell scripting and I was wondering if adding the "$" before you evaluate an expression while defining a variable... as in...

variable=$(expression)

Thanks for the help if you can.
 

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LEARN ABOUT MINIX

let

let(1)                                                             User Commands                                                            let(1)

NAME

       let - shell built-in function to evaluate one or more arithmetic expressions

SYNOPSIS

   ksh
       let arg...

DESCRIPTION

   ksh
       Each arg is a separate "arithmetic expression" to be evaluated.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0        The value of the last expression is non-zero.

       1        The value of the last expression is zero.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcsu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       ksh(1), set(1), typeset(1), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10                                                          15 Apr 1994                                                             let(1)
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