Matthew_S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sorry guys, I need to take it a step further and am hitting a wall at the
> moment;
>
> I need to take two results (from you examples), compare them and get a final
> result. What I have thus far is;
>
> operation()
> {
> echo >> $LOG
> echo Running operation>> $LOG
> for i in a b
> do
> mkdir $DIR/dir$i
> cd $DIR/dir$i
> date1=$SECONDS
> operation
> date2=$SECONDS
> interval$i=$(($date2 - $date1)) #1st & 2nd errors
If you want to set a computed variable you need to use eval.
eval interval$i='$(($date2 - $date1))'
Andreas.
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