On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:05 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 13/05/2008, L. V. Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a script as follows > [snip] > > i=$i+1 > [snip] > > How to correct it > > Your counter is wrong. $i + 1 means to treat i as a string and to > append the string "1" to it. If you want to do arithmetic in bash, you > have to put it inside brackets. i = $[i+1]. You should use i=$((i+1)) In man bash: The old format $[expression] is deprecated and will be removed in upcoming versions of bash.
