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Old 11-30-2016
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Originally Posted by RudiC
If you carefully scrutinize my proposal and your statement leading to the error msg, you might find the mistake...
I finally understood how ##* works and corrected my code:
Code:
cyanperc=$(( ${currentcyan##* }*100/${maxcyan##* } ))

Worked perfectly fine Smilie

Thank you for your help and for not telling me what was wrong so that I could figure it out myself. I really appreciate it!

Lucas
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