[lug] Letting Bash do the Arithmetic

[Kenneth D. Weinert]

Try this:

typeset -i head_lines

((head_lines = 23945837-4926402))

head -n $head_lines some.file

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 06:28:22PM -0600, Peter Hutnick wrote:
> So I'm trying stuff like "head -n ((23945837-4926402)) some.file"  and
> getting "bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('."

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