Re: bash vars

2002-05-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 00:54, christopher j bottaro wrote: > > yeah, check it out, its a little script for lauching quake3 (urban terror > mod). i got a bunch of computers behind a linksys router, so each user has > to have a unique net_port. > > SUFFIX=$(($UID % 100)) > if [ "$SUFFIX" -lt 10

Re: bash vars

2002-05-01 Thread christopher j bottaro
On Tuesday 30 April 2002 06:00 pm, David Talkington wrote: > But is % really what you meant? / divides; % gives remainder after > (${UID}/100). yeah, check it out, its a little script for lauching quake3 (urban terror mod). i got a bunch of computers behind a linksys router, so each user has

Re: bash vars

2002-04-30 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, christopher j bottaro wrote: > SUFFIX=${UID} % 100 Um, what the heck are you trying to do? This doesn't seem particularly useful, epecially if you have large numbers of UIDs. You might also want to consider moving these sorts of non-Red Hat questions to a shell programmin

Re: bash vars

2002-04-30 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 April 2002 06:33 pm, christopher j bottaro wrote: > hehe, non strongly typed languages always confuse me. i'm trying to > get this to work > SUFFIX=${UID} % 100 > but it doesn't work. i think UID is not an int

Re: bash vars

2002-04-30 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 christopher j bottaro wrote: >hehe, non strongly typed languages always confuse me. i'm trying to get this >to work >SUFFIX=${UID} % 100 let SUFFIX=(${UID} % 100) But is % really what you meant? / divides; % gives remainder after (${UID}/100).

Re: bash vars

2002-04-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 15:33, christopher j bottaro wrote: > hehe, non strongly typed languages always confuse me. i'm trying to get this > to work > SUFFIX=${UID} % 100 > but it doesn't work. i think UID is not an interget var. since bash vars are > not strongly

bash vars

2002-04-30 Thread christopher j bottaro
hehe, non strongly typed languages always confuse me. i'm trying to get this to work SUFFIX=${UID} % 100 but it doesn't work. i think UID is not an interget var. since bash vars are not strongly typed, i figured it would just do the cast for me. thanks for the help (for the prev