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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Type casting problem Post 302617643 by raadhaakrishnan on Tuesday 3rd of April 2012 03:06:02 AM
Old 04-03-2012
Java Type casting problem

hi guys,

i m new to shell script..

i dont know how to type cast string into integers and i mention my problem below..

date="21091988"
month=$((${date:2:2})) # extract the month from previous date variable
temp=$(($month*23))

when i am trying to calculate the temp value i got the following error..
09: value too great for base (error token is "09")
*23: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "*23")

i tried with following declaration,
declare -i month

bt above also not works....

i dont know where it gets wrong...

when i m assigning month value less than 8... it works nicely yar.....

i think it s something related to octane.... bt i dont know the extactly dears...

please help me....SmilieSmilieSmilieSmilieSmilieSmilieSmilie
 

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SYSTEMD-ASK-PASSWORD-CONSOLE.SERVICE(8) 	       systemd-ask-password-console.service		   SYSTEMD-ASK-PASSWORD-CONSOLE.SERVICE(8)

NAME
systemd-ask-password-console.service, systemd-ask-password-console.path, systemd-ask-password-wall.service, systemd-ask-password-wall.path - Query the user for system passwords on the console and via wall SYNOPSIS
systemd-ask-password-console.service systemd-ask-password-console.path systemd-ask-password-wall.service systemd-ask-password-wall.path DESCRIPTION
systemd-ask-password-console.service is a system service that queries the user for system passwords (such as hard disk encryption keys and SSL certificate passphrases) on the console. It is intended to be used during boot to ensure proper handling of passwords necessary for boot. systemd-ask-password-wall.service is a system service that informs all logged in users for system passwords via wall(1). It is intended to be used after boot to ensure that users are properly notified. See the developer documentation[1] for more information about the system password logic. Note that these services invoke systemd-tty-ask-password-agent(1) with either the --watch --console or --watch --wall command line parameters. SEE ALSO
systemd(1), systemd-tty-ask-password-agent(1), wall(1) NOTES
1. developer documentation https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents systemd 237 SYSTEMD-ASK-PASSWORD-CONSOLE.SERVICE(8)
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