On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Jean-Pierre Thibert
<jpthibert at eircom.net> wrote:
> Hi everybody and happy new year,
>> I'm learning shell script and have some questions. Could you help me?
>> 1)I have a variable with a value between 00.00 to 100.00 (ie : 12.58)
> I want to extract the integer. Something like X=int(MYVAR)
> How to do that? I didn't find out after a lot of research.
>
not nice:
echo "12.34" | cut -d . -f 1
> 2) I think wget command has an output only as a file not a variable.
> Am I right?
asd=`wget -q -O - http://checkip.dyndns.org/`
echo $asd
<html><head><title>Current IP Check</title></head><body>Current IP
Address: XXX</body></html>
>> 3) I tried to find a script commands reference on Internet and a detailed
> training unsuccessfully.
> Have you some good links?
>
bash scritpting/programing howtos, don't remember any really good one,
but probably there are some
man bash (no kidding)
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