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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Syntax error piping to bc on command line - works when assigned to var Post 302588618 by gencon on Monday 9th of January 2012 01:08:32 PM
Old 01-09-2012
Corona688 and jim mcnamara: Did neither of you see the PS in my post !! Smilie I know I failed to realize that $1 would give me the first column (I assumed that would be the whole line). It's not that I can't do it, just that I want to understand what I am doing wrong with the pipe to bc. Anyone know?

Corona688: There are no extra spaces, or any spaces at all come to think of it.

Thanks guys. Cheers.
 

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approx

APPROX(8)                                                     System Manager's Manual                                                    APPROX(8)

NAME

       approx - proxy server for Debian archive files

SYNOPSIS

       approx [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

       approx responds to HTTP requests made by apt-get(8).  It maintains a cache of Debian archive files that have been previously downloaded, so
       that it can respond with a local copy when possible.  If a file not in the cache is requested, approx will download it from a remote Debian
       repository and deliver the contents to the client, simultaneously caching it for future use.

       Over  time,  the approx server cache will grow to contain multiple, unneeded versions of Debian packages.  The approx-gc(8) program removes
       these from the cache.

OPTIONS

       -c file, --config file
              Specify an additional configuration file.  May be used multiple times.

USAGE

       approx is invoked by inetd(8).

EXAMPLES

       Suppose that a client machine's /etc/apt/sources.list file contains the following lines:

              deb     http://apt:9999/debian    testing main
              deb     http://apt:9999/security  testing/updates main
              deb-src http://apt:9999/debian    unstable main

       In this example, apt is the hostname of the approx server machine on the local network.  Each distribution, such as "debian" or "security",
       is mapped to a remote repository in the approx server's configuration file.

       For example, the approx.conf file on the approx server might contain the lines

              debian   http://ftp.debian.org/debian
              security http://security.debian.org

       The mapping scheme is very simple.  If the approx.conf file contains the line

              repository     http://remote-host/initial/path

       then any request to the approx server of the form

              http://approx-server/repository/rest/of/URL

       is rewritten to

              http://remote-host/initial/path/rest/of/URL

       when there is a "cache miss", and that file is cached as

              /var/cache/approx/repository/rest/of/URL

       (Note  that  the repository name on the left-hand side is not included in the rewritten URL unless it is explicitly mentioned in the right-
       hand side's initial path.)

FILES

       /etc/approx/approx.conf
              Configuration file for approx and related programs.

       /var/cache/approx
              Default cache directory for archive files.

SEE ALSO

       approx.conf(5), inetd(8), approx-import(8), approx-gc(8), apt-get(8), sources.list(5)

AUTHOR

       Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>

                                                                     May 2011                                                            APPROX(8)
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