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Unix - Shell Arithmatic Operators Example

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Here is an example which uses all the arithmatic operatos:

#!/bin/sh

a=10
b=20
val=`expr $a + $b`
echo "a + b : $val"

val=`expr $a - $b`
echo "a - b : $val"

val=`expr $a \* $b`
echo "a * b : $val"

val=`expr $b / $a`
echo "b / a : $val"

val=`expr $b % $a`
echo "b % a : $val"

if [ $a == $b ]
then
   echo "a is equal to b"
fi

if [ $a != $b ]
then
   echo "a is not equal to b"
fi

This would produce following result:

a + b : 30
a - b : -10
a * b : 200
b / a : 2
b % a : 0
a is not equal to b

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