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Old 01-25-2010
bc throwing coredump
Hi Gurus,
I tried bc 1000 % 10 on tcsh and ksh and its throwing a core dump on a sun solaris machine.
uname -a
SunOS azote 5.9 Generic_118558-39 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4
Please let me know if you find anything.

Thanks,
Kinny
# 2  
Old 01-25-2010
using bash shell:-

Code:
X=$(echo "1000%10" | bc)
echo $X

# 3  
Old 01-25-2010
What calculation are you trying to do?
# 4  
Old 01-25-2010
It says Illegal variable name.

Even echo "1000%10" | bc gives me a core dump.
Please advise

---------- Post updated at 06:08 AM ---------- Previous update was at 06:07 AM ----------

I am just trying to get the reminder of 1000 divided by a user passed variable
# 5  
Old 01-25-2010
This would suggest that your copy of "bc" is corrupt or from a different system.

Code:
Just for diagnostics.

Find out which program failed.
file core

Check whether you are actually running /usr/bin/bc
type bc

Try /usr/bin/bs to eliminate whether /usr/bin/bc is the only problem
echo "100%9"|bs
1

# 6  
Old 01-25-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by kinny
It says Illegal variable name.

Even echo "1000%10" | bc gives me a core dump.
Please advise

---------- Post updated at 06:08 AM ---------- Previous update was at 06:07 AM ----------

I am just trying to get the reminder of 1000 divided by a user passed variable
I had said in my post that you have to have a bash shell to do my code above

try writing the below:-

Code:
bash
X=$(echo "1000%10" | bc)
echo $X

# 7  
Old 01-25-2010
Hi Ahmad,
I tried this with bash and I get no output.
Code:
bash-2.00$ X=$(echo "1000%9" | bc);echo $X

bash-2.00$ X=$(echo "1000%10" | bc);echo $X

bash-2.00$



---------- Post updated at 08:39 AM ---------- Previous update was at 08:36 AM ----------

Code:
bash-2.00$ bc
1000%3
Abort (core dumped)
bash-2.00$

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