1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm trying to write a simple bash script and I need something like var=2^(5+i) where i is another variable. How would do I this in bash? (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am in ksh88 I am trying to get the result of the calculation using 3 variables: TOTAL CAPACITY and get the following error: $DB_CAPACITY=(( $DB_SIZE * 100 / $TOTAL )) ksh: syntax error: `((' unexpected I cannot figure out what am I doing wrong... Thanks for any help -A (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All I want to make summery for Date=245Duration=545 Date=245Duration=10 Date=245Duration=278 Date=246Duration=30 Date=246Duration=178 Date=246Duration=414 Date=247Duration=17 Date=247Duration=281 Date=247Duration=9 Date=248Duration=968 Date=248Duration=550 Date=248Duration=1011... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have a simple question. Is there an easy way to read a date of birth from a file and calculate how old that person is based on today's date? And would I need the make sure the birthdates are enterered in a particular format? Thanks (10 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Could someone till me what this calculation really means let foo=`date "+(1%H-106)*60+1%M-100"` bar=foo+1440 (4 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

for i in `lsvg` do echo "VG Name:" $i echo "Total VG Size:" lsvg $i |grep "TOTAL PPs:" |awk '{print $7}' | cut -c2- echo "Free VG Size:" lsvg $i |grep "FREE PPs:" | awk '{print $7}' | cut -c2- done The PP Sizes are in MB. I like to have the sizes in GB. Also, I like to have the... (14 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

pcmpath query device |awk 'BEGIN{print "TYPE\tDEVICE NAME\tSERIAL\tSIZE\tHOSTNAME"} /DEVICE/ { disk=$5 printf "%s\t", $7 printf "%s\t", disk getline; printf "%s\t", substr($2, length($2)-3) ("bootinfo -s " disk) | getline; printf... (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, i have a large file like this: Contig1 1 5 Contig1 2 4 Contig1 3 3 Contig1 4 5 Contig1 5 3 Contig1 6 4 Contig2 1 3 Contig2 2 7 Contig2 3 2 Contig2 4 9 Contig2 5 10 Contig2 6 3 Contig2 7 7 Contig2 8 2 Contig2 9 7 Contig2 10 5 contig1 2 4 contig1 3 3 contig1 4 5 (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

can you help i am merging 2 files together and saving to a third file with awk and its working with this code awk 'OFS="";NR==FNR{a=$0;next} {print a,"\n","\b",$0}' file1 file2 > file3the problem is in file3 when its saved i get a small square at the start of every 2nd line (see picture) ... (6 Replies)