04-19-2004
Re: Simple arithmetic operation
Quote:
Originally posted by paladyn_2002
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
You may go over bash's syntax.
1. It is better to use $() instead of `` in bash, a modern shell.
2. The syntax of Arithmetic expression in Bash: $(())
y=$(($x / 7))
3. No "printf" command
echo "$y People have visited this page"
4. Use "sh" instead of "bash", the former is usually a softlink to "bash"
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SYNOPSIS
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DESCRIPTION
The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser-
shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root.
A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by the routines
which search the file. Blank lines are also ignored.
The following default shells are used by utilities: /bin/bash, /bin/csh, /bin/jsh, /bin/ksh, /bin/pfcsh, /bin/pfksh, /bin/pfsh, /bin/sh,
/bin/tcsh, /bin/zsh, /sbin/jsh, /sbin/sh, /usr/bin/bash, /usr/bin/csh, /usr/bin/jsh, /usr/bin/ksh, /usr/bin/pfcsh, /usr/bin/pfksh,
/usr/bin/pfsh, and /usr/bin/sh, /usr/bin/tcsh, /usr/bin/zsh. Note that /etc/shells overrides the default list.
Invalid shells in /etc/shells may cause unexpected behavior (such as being unable to log in by way of ftp(1)).
FILES
/etc/shells lists shells on system
SEE ALSO
vipw(1B), ftpd(1M), sendmail(1M), getusershell(3C), aliases(4)
SunOS 5.10 4 Jun 2001 shells(4)