topic Re: Caluclations in script in Operating System - HP-UX

Caluclations in script

jayachandran.g — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 02:11:22 GMT

My problem

i have some xml files whcih i'm intersted to convert in to a execl file and merge it.

i have planned to convert amd merge more then 25 files to sigle large file with a tab space so that i will be able to view as a exel file.

but each and every xml file is different from other so i cant use simple cat head and tail cmd.

now i'm thinking of using line numbers.

Need Solution

for this i want to do some calculations in the script i want my script to add $TT with 141
where $TT will be changing how to do this.

Re: Caluclations in script

RAC_1 — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 02:17:42 GMT

First, be aware that shell calculations are limited to integer values. so sticking it to shell arithmatic is not a good idea.

you can do it as follows.

total=$(($TT+2))

Better way to do it, is with bc/bs

echo "$TT+96" | bc
echo "$TT+96" | bs

Re: Caluclations in script

Ralph Grothe — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 03:12:15 GMT

Have a look at the arithmetic evaluation section in the manpage of sh-posix.
Bear in mind that the shell's arithmetic capabilities are however somewhat restricted
(compared to most scripting or programming languages, or programs such as bc)
The manpage will tell you.
Nevertheless you can define shell variables to be treated as integers explicitly by the typeset built-in.
Variables marked such can easily be evaluated in double parentheses.

e.g.

$ typeset -i line_no=0; while read line; do printf "%0.4d\n" $((line_no+=1));done < /etc/hosts|tail
0049
0050
0051
0052
0053
0054
0055
0056
0057
0058

If you were using a Perl script you could refer to the special package global $.
which holds the current line number
(see "perldoc perlvar" for further explanations)

Re: Caluclations in script

jayachandran.g — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:13:53 GMT

Hi

Thanks for your reply.

As if i'm going to use only addition not more than 3 digits i hope the answer you people provided will do.

Thank You.
And i'm using the procedure give by RAC as if that is very easy one to follow.