[Rule-list] finding hard disk size

Devon devon at tuxfan.homeip.net
Tue Apr 9 07:59:34 EEST 2002


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On Monday 08 April 2002 10:27 pm, Devon wrote:

> > But it won't work in the shell available in the installer. :)
> > Refer to my previous post for syntax the installer will handle.
>
> It's worse than that. My script won't work either, this shell doesn't
> have the 'let' built-in. I'm searching at present, but it doesn't look
> like the shell has math functions.

Ok, math support is now available in the installer, via 'expr'
usage:
expr ARG1 \* ARG2
TOTAL=`expr ARG1 \* ARG2`

Math operators need to be escaped or quoted.

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