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From: karish@denali.UUCP (karish)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Math functions in shell script?
Message-ID: <40@denali.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 88 04:06:48 GMT
References: <2653@juniper.UUCP>
Reply-To: karish@denali.UUCP (Chuck Karish)
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In article <2653@juniper.UUCP> painter@juniper.UUCP (Tom Painter ) writes:
>
>I am having problems finding out how to do calculations in a shell script.
>I would like to go through a loop 4 times,
>The code roughly is :
>if test "$cnt" -lt 5
>     do
>        msg$cnt= 'Message 1';;
>        cnt=cnt + 1
>#       ^^^^^^^^^^^ wrong language but message should be clear
>
>     done (etc......)
>
	cnt=`expr $cnt + 1`