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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Syntax error piping to bc on command line - works when assigned to var Post 302588625 by methyl on Monday 9th of January 2012 01:32:22 PM
Old 01-09-2012
Explanation of the error.
Your "tr" command strips out all line terminators (\n) for some unknown reason and converts them to "+" signs. My version of "sed" will not process lines without a line terminator, but yours appears to work (to my surprise).

The "bc" program fails because the input stream is not terminated with a linefeed character (\n).

When you "echo" the variable $var1 the "echo" statement appends a linefeed character (\n).

Btw. The unix standard version of "tr" will not translate three different characters into one. The length of the translate list must be the same both sides.
Code:
echo "xyz" | tr 'xyz' '+'
+yz
echo "xyz" | tr 'xyz' '+++'
+++

In your script this would only matter if there were carriage-return or form-feed characters in the line (which there are clearly not).
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