Subject: Re: Bourne Shell question
To: Bob Nestor <rnestor@augustmail.com>
From: Ben Collver <collver1@comcast.net>
List: current-users
Date: 12/16/2003 15:50:34 
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 05:40:16PM -0600, Bob Nestor wrote:
> echo 'sleep 5*$1' >>test1.sh

This ought to be:
echo 'sleep $((5 * $1))' >>test1.sh

Ben
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