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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting until command syntax error Post 94753 by Perderabo on Tuesday 3rd of January 2006 04:39:23 PM
Old 01-03-2006
Next time, tell us what result you get!!! Do not just say that "what is wrong". A clue as to what system would be nice too...

You cant do:
export v = "1"
v = `expr $v + 1`
No spaces around the equal signs. You need to do:
export v="1"
v=`expr $v + 1`
 

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