On Thu, Apr 13, 2017, 03:04 Xen <l...@xenhideout.nl> wrote:

> Nicole schreef op 12-04-2017 18:51:
> > Thank you for your kind reply, Vladimir. I failed to find the probe
> > command - I promise - I spent quite a few hours digging through the
> > source. As for the $((...)) and $[...] - I'll look into it.
> >
> > It seems that my paltry contributions are not needed, after all.
>
> Bash syntax will not have the min/max behaviour though unless you use a
> kind of modulo which will make it complex.
>
There is a $[a>b?a:b] syntax

>
> ie. normally you would do that with: x = (x + 1) mod 4, or x = (x - 1 +
> 4) mod 4.
>
> although I'm not sure a standard "round robin" function like that would
> be meaningful but who knows.
>
> so the " arithmetic --set fred --min 2 -- max 10 "1" "+" "2" "
>
> will come down to
>
> fred=$(( (((fred-2) + 1) % 8) + 2 )) -- I assume. Or if you still had
> those min/max functions it'd come down to ?
>
> arithmetic --set fred --min 2 --max 10 $(( fred + 1 ))     ?
>
> Regards.
>
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