Re: Easy math in bash?

This should work:

#! /bin/sh
i=1
i=$[i + 1]
echo $i

        -- Adam

On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Les Klassen Hamm wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Is there a relatively easy way to do some basic math in a bash shell
> script, or do I need to fire up a little perl script? I have a shell script
> that extracts a list of numbers, which I want added together and then piped
> out to mail program. All the rest is no problem, but I can't think of an
> elegant or simple way to simply add the column of numbers together.
> Thanks,
> Les...
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