When you run shell commands in a pipe, they exist inside a different shell. This shell sums up the value perfectly and quits - leaving you in your original shell where the value was never changed.
Which end of the pipe is 'your' shell can vary from shell to shell. In KSH, you'd have gotten the total; I suspect you're running bash.
There's a few ways to deal with this and make it work in both.
Stuffing the entire program into the subshell with ( ) grouping braces:
I have no idea why I can't get this to work, if anybody can help i would appreciate it.
#!/bin/bash
x=`cat counter.txt | wc -l`
y= '$x / 7'
printf "%d People have visited this page" $y
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I am using egrep to extract numbers from a file and storing them as variables in a script. But I am not able to do any arithmetic operations on the variables using "expr" because it stores them as char and not integers. Here is my code and the error I get. Any help will be appreciated.
#!/bin/sh... (3 Replies)
Hi, All,
I have a file, its content is as follows:
100 150
120 135
140 170
I want to insert a column, its content is determined by the difference between the two values in the same line, if the difference is less than 20, the new value is 1, otherwise is 0.
after the operation, the... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I would appreciate if anyone knows how to perform adding to date.
As for normal date, i can easily plus with any number.
But when it comes to month end say for example 28 Jun, i need to perform a plus with number 3, it will not return 1 Jul.
Thanks in advance for your help. (4 Replies)
Hi
I have a file with 3 columns. say,
infile:
1 50 68
34 3 23
23 4 56
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I want to generate n files from this file using a loop so that 1st column in output file is (column1 of infile/(2*n+2.561))
I am doing like this:
for ((i=1; i<=3; i++))
do
a=`echo... (3 Replies)
I am writing a script in zsh shell, it fetchs a number from a file using the awk command, store it as a variable, which in my case is a small number 0.62000. I want to change this number by multiplying it by 1000 to become 620.0 using the command in the script
var2=$((var1*1000))
trouble is... (2 Replies)
input:
Name|Operation
rec_10|1+2+2-
Output:
rec_10|1
Basically I am trying to calculate the result of "the path" in $3 where the operators follow the number and not preceding them like we normally do:
rec_10: +1+2-2=1
But I realise (I am sure there is a good reason for that) that awk... (7 Replies)
I have to do some arithmetic operation on Field 8 which is calculated by Field 9/Field 7
Suppose i have data like :
0800123456|JAN|2017|JAN|2018|0800123456|0|0.0000|0.00|
0800234567|JAN|2017|JAN|2018|0800234567|4|2.5812|10.32|
0800666666|JAN|2017|JAN|2018|0800666666|2|1.7255|3.45|... (0 Replies)
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platform::shell
platform::shell(3tcl) Tcl Bundled Packages platform::shell(3tcl)__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________NAME
platform::shell - System identification support code and utilities
SYNOPSIS
package require platform::shell ?1.1.4?
platform::shell::generic shell
platform::shell::identify shell
platform::shell::platform shell
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
The platform::shell package provides several utility commands useful for the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell.
This package allows the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell different from the shell running the package. The only
requirement is that the other shell (identified by its path), is actually executable on the current machine.
While for most platform this means that the architecture of the interrogated shell is identical to the architecture of the running shell
this is not generally true. A counter example are all platforms which have 32 and 64 bit variants and where a 64bit system is able to run
32bit code. For these running and interrogated shell may have different 32/64 bit settings and thus different identifiers.
For applications like a code repository it is important to identify the architecture of the shell which will actually run the installed
packages, versus the architecture of the shell running the repository software.
COMMANDS
platform::shell::identify shell
This command does the same identification as platform::identify, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell.
platform::shell::generic shell
This command does the same identification as platform::generic, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell.
platform::shell::platform shell
This command returns the contents of tcl_platform(platform) for the specified Tcl shell.
KEYWORDS
operating system, cpu architecture, platform, architecture
platform::shell 1.1.4 platform::shell(3tcl)