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aah ok, i'm suich a noob, for misspelling hours, sorry, i'm not use to the interface yet as i'm using putty on my windows machine and it taking time for my eyes to adjust to the color scheme.
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I updated my code to include the validation, at present it does not work as it says:


traveltime: line 18: 40 \% 60: syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator (error token is "\% 60")


with...

it's a comment, i commented it out because i wasn't sure if Mythl had commented his test script code which is why i was asking if he had maybe changed his version.

Mythl, thanks for your reply, i adjusted my code to




#X60=$(($1 * 60))
TOTMINUTES=$(($X60 / $2))
HOURS=$(($TOTMINUTES / 60))
MINUTES=$(($TOTMINUTES \% 60))
i get this error ": line 12:...

Hi, i',m new to bash scripting and i have the following scrip,

#!/bin/bash
# traveltime - a program to calculate how long it will
# take to travel a fixed distance
# syntax: traveltime miles...