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purell86

Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:41 am

Joined: Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:39 am
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Hi i'm a newbie in scripting and i need help with developing a script that takes 2 lines of numbers from a file and subtracts them and echo's their result.

for instance i have a file test.txt with

Code:

200
50

now i have a script to ADD the two lines of number which is

Code:

value=0
while read var
do
value=$(($value + $var))
done < ~/test.txt
echo $value

but i can't figure out how too subract these two lines and echo the result

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fredrik.eriksson

Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 2:22 am

Joined: Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:25 am
Posts: 221

This is a job well done using "for-loops"

Code:

# cat test.txt
200
50
# cat test.sh
#!/bin/bash
value=0
for i in $(cat test.txt); do
   value=(($value + $i))
done

"For" makes an itteration for each "item" (seperated by a space character), meaning that if you have line like "200 40" then that will become 2 itterations.

Best regards
Fredrik Eriksson

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Watael

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:40 pm

Joined: Mon Mar 02, 2009 3:03 am
Posts: 447

this can also be done basically like this:

Code:

$ while read line; do 
> eval line$((++n))=$line
> test $n -eq 2 && { echo $((line1 + line2)); unset n; }
> done <test.txt
250

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