On 1119834512 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch "Peter Bako" wrote: >
>dayscount=$(expr ($year - 1900) * 365)
>echo $dayscount
>exit
Parenthesis are shell reserved words and hence must be quoted if they
are to be passed as arguments to a command, in this case expr. Also,
the * is a globbing character, so it must also be quoted.
Try:
expr \( $year - 1900 \) \* 365
To stop the shell from giving special interpretation to the (, ) and *.
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Roland Dowdeswell http://www.Imrryr.ORG/~elric/
