I am trying to count manually what this code does but I am stuck and I don't learly see the result. The code works and it compiles and runs but I just don't follow the value of var.
I understand that in the while condition it says that it should not do something more than 4 times in this case it will fork 4 times. Then in the second if statement it says that if p is the child then we count down (var--) but and yet again at right before closing the while statement we use the counter (var++) again does this mean that whatever was added in the beginning to (++var) at the beginning of the loop then gets subtracted (--var) in the if statement and then added again (var++) just before while?. I cannot follow, can someone give me some insight into how counting the loop and what the code does?
BR,
Bluetxxth
Last edited by bluetxxth; 11-06-2011 at 04:34 PM..
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I have seen this done before - and maybe there is a better way too.
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{
if ; then
echo "Please provide a file name"
else
treat_as_file $*
fi
}
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{
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I figured this out, but I wanted to pose the question.
I was writing a while loop that required counting the amount of times the job had run, for example.
An example below is what I had:
variable=0
while :
do
variable = `expr $variable + 1`
done
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mp3=`ls | grep \.mp3`
for f in $mp3
do
echo $f
done
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chr10 101418889 101418904 0.816327
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... (1 Reply)
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isaexec(3C) Standard C Library Functions isaexec(3C)NAME
isaexec - invoke isa-specific executable
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
int isaexec(const char *path, char *const argv[], char *const envp[]);
DESCRIPTION
The isaexec() function takes the path specified as path and breaks it into directory and file name components. It enquires from the running
system the list of supported instruction set architectures; see isalist(5). The function traverses the list for an executable file in named
subdirectories of the original directory. When such a file is located, execve() is invoked with argv[] and envp[]. See exec(2).
RETURN VALUES
If no file is located, isaexec() returns ENOENT. Other return values are the same as for execve().
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Example of isaexec() function.
On a system whose isalist is
sparcv7 sparc
the program
int
main(int argc, char *argv[], char *envp[])
{
return (isaexec("/bin/thing", argv, envp));
}
will look first for an executable file named /bin/sparcv7/thing, then for an executable file named /bin/sparc/thing. It will invoke
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int
main(int argc, char *argv[], char *envp[])
{
return (isaexec(getexecname(), argv, envp));
}
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See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Stable |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
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