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From: painter@juniper.UUCP (Tom Painter )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Math functions in shell script?
Message-ID: <2653@juniper.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 88 23:45:00 GMT
Reply-To: painter@juniper.UUCP (Tom Painter )
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Organization: Austin UNIX Users' Group, Austin, TX
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I am having problems finding out how to do calculations in a shell script.
I am assuming there are methods because of the ability to check variables
using -lt, -gt, ... (<,>,etc). Granted this does not necessarily mean 
that they do exist.

I would like to go through a loop 4 times,

The code roughly is :

if test "$cnt" -lt 5
     do
        msg$cnt= 'Message 1';;

#somehow increment cnt and go through loop again
        cnt=cnt + 1
#       ^^^^^^^^^^^ wrong language but message should be clear

     done (etc......)

Thanks in advance

Tom
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