I am wanting to pass variables from a file to an awk arithmetic formula.
When I use the formula with the value it works well. As soon as I make these variables I get an inf (infinity) response. I can certainly echo the variables back and they look correct. My googling for answers has failed. Any ideas ???
The variables being 89,63 in this case ...
This produces the file ggh ... giving ...
Whereas on the command line I get ...
Cheers, g
Does anybody have an explanation for the following:
The following scripts runs fine on IRIX64 6.5 but has bugs on Solaris 8.
#! /bin/sh
echo run only on an SGI machine
echo type in linenumber
read j
echo value
read value
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File1
76 135
136 200
250 345
....
File2
1 24
1 35
1 36
1 72
....
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