Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3F6FFDD6.27C0D7AC@dessent.net> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 01:01:26 -0700 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... X-Accept-Language: en,en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin Subject: Re: Math working on command line but not in script References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Robert Mark Bram wrote: > > Howdy All! > > I have a small script called maths.sh with the following code in it: > > #/usr/bin/bash The features you're trying to use are bash-specific. The above shebang is not correct (you need a ! after the #, as in "#!/path/to/file") and so the script is being executed not by bash but by sh which doesn't understand the $(( foo )) syntax. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/