Hello, I am having issues with a bash script and I was wondering if anyone could be of assistance? Its just that our lecturer assumed it would be easy to pick up and do an assignment on, even though we haven't learnt it and its not a pre-requisite.
But anyway, I noticed when I use the cut command to obtain some numbers from a file, I cannot use it in an arithmetic operation. I tried the following: temp='expr $val1 + $val2' But I get the following error message: expr: non-numeric argument I was wondering if BASH requires type conversion? I even printed out the values for $val1 and $val2. They look like integers to me. If anyone could help me, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance Tony _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
