From: Mike Hernandez <sequethin@gmail.com>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>, zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Airthmetic confusion...
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 07:26:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3060c23905051704266161dfef@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1050517034852.ZM26898@candle.brasslantern.com>
On 5/16/05, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> If you want ONLY arithmetic evaluation, use $(( expression )),
> and apply the colon command if necessary, e.g.
>
> : $(( x = a - b ))
>
> or
>
> x=$(( a - b ))
>
> Those are both successful shell expressions that result in zero-
> value assignments to x.
>
Thanks for shedding light on this Bart! I was going crazy trying to
figure this out :)
Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-17 11:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-16 17:55 Meino Christian Cramer
2005-05-16 20:43 ` Matthias Berndt
2005-05-16 20:59 ` Mike Hernandez
2005-05-16 21:46 ` Dan Nelson
2005-05-17 1:19 ` Mike Hernandez
2005-05-16 23:39 ` Matthias Berndt
2005-05-17 3:13 ` Meino Christian Cramer
2005-05-17 3:48 ` Bart Schaefer
2005-05-17 11:26 ` Mike Hernandez [this message]
2005-05-17 14:57 ` Meino Christian Cramer
2005-05-17 3:14 ` Meino Christian Cramer
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