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Old 10-18-2001
Question Bourne shell script need help please ?

i have this assignment.. and i mad this script but there is something wrong with it.. if anyone can tell me.. watz going on... i would appreciate it.. tHnX in advance..
Code:
count=1
val=$2
op=$1
ans=0
if [ $op = "-e" -o $op = "-o" ]
then
        if [ $op = "-e" ]
        then
                while [ $count -le $val ]
                do
                        ans=`expr $count % 2`
                        if [ $ans -eq 0 ]
                        then
                        echo "$count \c "
                        count=`expr $count + 1`
                        fi
                done
        elif [ $op = "-o" ]
        then
                while [ $count -le $val ]
                do
                        ans=`expr $count % 2`
                        if [ $ans -ne 0 ]   
                        then
                        echo "$count \c "
                        count=`expr $count + 1`
                        fi
                done
        fi
else
        while [ $count -le $val ]
        do
                echo "$count \c "
                count=`expr $count + 1`
        done
fi

ThnX again Smilie

added code tags for readability --oombera

Last edited by oombera; 02-20-2004 at 11:51 AM..
 

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NAME
timer_getoverrun - Obtains the overrun count for a specified timer LIBRARY
Realtime Library (librt.so, librt.a) SYNOPSIS
include <time.h> int timer_getoverrun ( timer_t timerid ); PARAMETERS
timerid The timer for which to return the overrun count. DESCRIPTION
The timer_getoverrun function returns the overrun count for a specified timer. The count contains the number of extra timer expirations that occurred between the time the signal was queued and when it was delivered, up to but not including the implementation-defined maximum DELAYTIMER_MAX. RETURN VALUES
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