Friday, April 9, 2010

Shell aritmetic operations on the command line


You can perform simple aritmetic operations on the Linux shell command line, without using any external program.
use the command expr
These are the aritmetic operations.

  • Add
  • expr 1 + 2
  • Substract
  • expr 2 - 1
  • Multiply
  • expr 2 \* 1
  • Divide
  • expr 2 / 1
  • Reminder of a divition
  • expr 20 % 3
Note that for multiplication we escape the * character, with the back slash, and that the % operand gives as the reminder of a divition, also the divition is only giving as the Integer

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