The "value too great for base" happens because there is a number with a leading zero, and bash assumes octal, and 8 is too high for an octal number.
It happens with
or later with month.
As always there is an escape from such (mis)feature: a 10# prefix forces a base10=decimal
Now the leading zero are removed.
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You certainly want
As Jim said, such calculations are error prone.
perl is safer because it uses the libc routines.
Thanks madeingermany...I tried but the error is still because of line I mentioned in my first post n I am using AIX so most of the commands don't work...I need to do date calculation for an arbitrary date so tz doesn't work for me either
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Can anyone help please. I am writing a kourne shell script and I am unsure how to do the following:
I have extracted a time string from a logfile, and I have another time string I want to compare it to to see if it's later than the time I'm comparing with.
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i am used to making scripts for hp-ux. but lately i tried to make some for solaris. the problem is that when i tried to execute it it gave me an error the "let: not found". why is that? how can i perform an arithmetic function in the solaris shell script?
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I am trying one very simple thing I could not find anything on google..
I have 2 integer variable..and I need to do division...in ksh
where $catch and $num are integer variable..
I tryed with this:
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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.
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Hi Friends,
please advise on shell script to add two time stamps
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Hello all,
I'd like to know how to perform arithmetic on multiple files. I have got many tab-delimited files. Each file contains about 2000 rows and 2000 columns.
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The following explains what I want to do;
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Hi,
I need to process a file which contains below data. Usually the files contains both Start and Finish time. but for Few records, it contains only Start. For those records I need to add the finish line by adding 5 minutes to Start time.
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I have a file (main.lst) containing a list of dates in DDMMYYYY format. The dates will mostly be the same but it is possible to have multiple dates and these need not be in chronological order. I have another file containing another list of dates (holidays.lst).
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I need to divide the number of white spaces by total number of characters in a file using bash. I am able to get the number of white spaces correctly using:
tr -cd < afile | wc -c
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wc -c afile
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