On Friday 11 October 2002 12:43 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | On Friday 11 October 2002 12:24 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > >> | num=`expr $num + 1` > >> > >> let num=$num+1 > >> > >> ?? Wouldn't that be a bit more portable? > | > | There's no 'let' in sh. The sh way is > | i=`expr $i + 1` > > oh well... a bashism then. > (and then "let ++num" could be used) > > but the exe-ticks are still a problem, right?
I don't see why. Continuing André's test: aleem@pneumon:aleem-> sh aleem@pneumon:aleem-> echo `expr $i + 1` 2 aleem@pneumon:aleem-> echo "expr $i + 1" expr 1 + 1 aleem@pneumon:aleem-> echo 'expr $i + 1' expr $i + 1 Angus
