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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting increment a Variable Post 77798 by cengiz on Wednesday 13th of July 2005 03:44:44 AM
Old 07-13-2005
increment a Variable

hi,

i want to increment a Variable but it doesnt work.

here my codé
Code:
COUNT=1
COUNT= 'expr $COUNT + 1'

i've tried it in the prompt but it print me:
expr: syntaxerror

What does I make wrong?
 

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Swatch::Threshold(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    Swatch::Threshold(3pm)

NAME
Swatch::Threshold - Perl extension for thresholding in swatch(1) SYNOPSIS
use Swatch::Threshold; &Swatch::threshold( SWID => <int>, TYPE => <limit|threshold|both>, TRACK_BY => <key>, # like an IP addr COUNT => <int>, SECONDS => <int> ); SWATCH SYNTAX
threshold track_by=<key>, type=<limit|threshold|both>, count=<int>, seconds=<int> DESCRIPTION
SWID is swatch's internal ID number for the watchfor block TYPE can be limit, threshold, or both Limit - Alert on the 1st COUNT events during the time interval, then ignore events for the rest of the time interval. Threshold - Alert every COUNT times we see this event during the time interval. Both Alert once per time interval after seeing COUNT occurrences of the event, then ignore any additional events during the time interval. SECONDS is the time interval AUTHOR
E. Todd Atkins, todd.atkins@stanfordalumni.org SEE ALSO
perl(1), swatch(1). perl v5.10.0 2006-07-21 Swatch::Threshold(3pm)
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