You guys are conflating two different POSIX shell mechanisms here. One is the arithmetic expansion and the other is command expansion. These are different.
$(()) denotes arithmetic expansion, and $() denotes command expansion.
Shells that support $() or $(()) generally support both. For older shells that do not support these syntaxes, you need to use backticks (`) for command expansion and arithmetic expansion isn't supported. In arithmetic expansion, Corona rightly reports that you do not need $ to expand variables; however, you do need this in command expansion. For example:
However:
OTOH, if we give it an expr command:
We need explicit variable expansion:
BTW, if we want compatibility with older shells that do not support arithmetic expansion, we generally are not going to be able to use new-style command expansion, so we want something like this, instead:
we dont conflating anything.we are talking just arithmetic expansion about all shell variants.
I was referring to mentioned syntax of "$((x+y))" expression gives error on the some older shells..
In addition, I mentioned what i identified a issue that is maybe a bug in ash.
because of it(false statement) does not give any error at try of 3rd.
Hi all,
I got some problems on executing the following scripts.
Scripts:
if ]; then
echo "M${str}O 0 1" >> ${tempFile}
elif ]; then
echo "M${str}O 1 0" >> ${tempFile}
else
echo "M${str}O 0 0" >> ${tempFile}
fi
Error:
"`;' is not expected."
what's the problem? (2 Replies)
I am receiving an elif error on line 13 and I can not figure out the reasoning behind it. I have added the then statement that I was initially missing. Any help would be great.
#The purpose of this script is for the end user to be able to enter a positive number
#User enters a number
NUM=$1... (4 Replies)
Script Gurus,
Need your help in getting this script to come out of logical error : I have pasted the script below: This script finds disk utilzation ... the script is written for both AIX and SUN OS... and option will be given in the initial to select DB or Non DB... its required for my prj...... (1 Reply)
I am getting below error from this code (which is at line 24):
if ] #this is line24 in code
then
mv $File_source_path/$File_name $File_name'_'`date '+%d%m%y'`
Error:
line 24:
Any help with the syntax. I am putting 2 condition with 'AND' clause.
This is bash shell. (2 Replies)
I am in need of some help. I am not an advance scripter or programmer, I have novice knowledge. I cannot get a script to work as expected. The script basically does an FTP (which I have work perfectly) and writes to a log. However, I want the script to echo "Not Connected" if the FTP fails to... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I write an script will have some functions... I am getting elif not expected error..
Even tried by using set -x for debug but no use..
Could you please help me out in this
Variables
....
....
....
TEST_SRC()
{
cat ${filesrc} >> ${filetgt}
if ]; then
echo... (12 Replies)
Hi there, new to this forum and I recently encounter this problem:
I tried to use if-elif loop in a while-read loop, something like this:
#!/bin/bash
while read myline1 myline2
do
if ; then
echo "Successful!"
elif ; then
echo "Failed"
fi
done < $1
Input file looks like this:
200... (13 Replies)
Hi all,i have configured the following script to check if the file exists or not,
#!/bin/sh
sleep 30
{
FILEFULL=$1`date +$2`*
if ;
then
echo $FILEFULL exist
else
echo "$FILEFULL File not Found" | mail -s 'server' myaccount@mydomain.com
fi
}
but i have a problem, i need to... (2 Replies)
Hello all,
I have a scenario where I take user input values and accordingly take actions
say I run a script with
sh scriptname -x GB -e txt (txt can also be text)
I have used if clause for the first input (-x GB)and it is working fine
Now for second the scenario is
if
then
echo... (3 Replies)
Hello experts,
I am having problems with ELIF.
Please see the below code :
read a;
read b;
read c;
if || || ; then
echo "EQUILATERAL"
elif || || ; then
echo "SCALENE"
else
echo "ISOSCELES"
fi
This code works fine for the EQUILATERAL case but fails completely for the... (5 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
expr
EXPR(1) FSF EXPR(1)NAME
expr - evaluate expressions
SYNOPSIS
expr EXPRESSION
expr OPTION
DESCRIPTION --help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
Print the value of EXPRESSION to standard output. A blank line below separates increasing precedence groups. EXPRESSION may be:
ARG1 | ARG2
ARG1 if it is neither null nor 0, otherwise ARG2
ARG1 & ARG2
ARG1 if neither argument is null or 0, otherwise 0
ARG1 < ARG2
ARG1 is less than ARG2
ARG1 <= ARG2
ARG1 is less than or equal to ARG2
ARG1 = ARG2
ARG1 is equal to ARG2
ARG1 != ARG2
ARG1 is unequal to ARG2
ARG1 >= ARG2
ARG1 is greater than or equal to ARG2
ARG1 > ARG2
ARG1 is greater than ARG2
ARG1 + ARG2
arithmetic sum of ARG1 and ARG2
ARG1 - ARG2
arithmetic difference of ARG1 and ARG2
ARG1 * ARG2
arithmetic product of ARG1 and ARG2
ARG1 / ARG2
arithmetic quotient of ARG1 divided by ARG2
ARG1 % ARG2
arithmetic remainder of ARG1 divided by ARG2
STRING : REGEXP
anchored pattern match of REGEXP in STRING
match STRING REGEXP
same as STRING : REGEXP
substr STRING POS LENGTH
substring of STRING, POS counted from 1
index STRING CHARS
index in STRING where any CHARS is found, or 0
length STRING
length of STRING
+ TOKEN
interpret TOKEN as a string, even if it is a
keyword like `match' or an operator like `/'
( EXPRESSION )
value of EXPRESSION
Beware that many operators need to be escaped or quoted for shells. Comparisons are arithmetic if both ARGs are numbers, else lexicograph-
ical. Pattern matches return the string matched between ( and ) or null; if ( and ) are not used, they return the number of characters
matched or 0.
AUTHOR
Written by Mike Parker.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for expr is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and expr programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info expr
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 4.5.3 February 2003 EXPR(1)