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Date:	Sun, 24 Jul 2005 21:13:02 +0200
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When I put commands below in command line:
i=1
echo $i
i=$(($i+1))
echo $i

everything works well (i is incremented from 1 to 2), but when I run this as a shell script the result is:
1+1 instead of 2

How should I do incrementation in shell script?


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