Addition in bash
Ray Parrish
crp at cmc.net
Wed Oct 14 07:24:20 UTC 2009
Hello,
I have the following script fragment
Seconds=0;
while [ "$Seconds" -lt "60" ]
do
sleep 5;
Seconds=$Seconds+5;
padsp espeak "$Seconds"
done
For some reason Seconds becomes "0+5" instead of the integer value 5
which is what I am attempting to get it to be.
Does anyone know how to do integer math in bash?
Thanks for any help you can be.
Later, Ray Parrish
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