On Thu, 12 May 2005, Tony Jo wrote:
"Chris F.A. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
When quoting parts of a script or error messages, please be
accurate (cut and paste rather than retyping). You used:
temp=`expr $val1 + $val2`
or you wouldn't have received that error. The line you have would
have assigned the literal value to $temp.
Oh those were meant to be single quotes.
temp='expr $val1 + $val2'
You had single quotes in your post. They should be backticks.
What are the values of $val1 and $val2? Use this command to see
them:
printf ":%s:%s:\n" "$val1" "$val2"
What is the result of:
echo $(( $val1 + $val2 ))
What command did you use to fill those variables?
Those lines didn't seem to print out anything unforunately
Impossible.
The first command would have printed, at the very least, ":::".
The second would either have printed a number or an error message.
It prints out values when I simply type the variable name though.
The variable holds the following:
val1='cut -c8-9 usrTime'
val2='cut -c7-8 sysTime'
If those were the values, then the first command would have
printed:
:cut -c8-9 usrTime;cut -c7-8 sysTime:
What you presumably wanted was for those variables to hold the
results of the commands, not the commands themselves. For that,
you enclose the command in backticks, not single quotes:
val1=`cut -c8-9 usrTime`
val2=`cut -c7-8 sysTime`
Or:
val1=$(cut -c8-9 usrTime)
val2=$(cut -c7-8 sysTime)
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Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
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Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, 2005, Apress
<http://www.torfree.net/~chris/books/ssr.html>
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