How Do You Multiply a Shell Script in Linux?
Contents How Do You Perform a Multiplication in Shell Script? Multiplication of Two Numbers Using Expr in Shell Script in Shell, * Represents All Files in the...
How do you perform a multiplication in shell script?
Multiplication of two numbers using expr in shell script
In shell, * represents all files in the current directory. So, in order to use * as a multiplication operator, we should escape it like *. If we directly use * in expr, we will get error message.
How do you multiply in bash?
The Bash shell has a large list of supported arithmetic operators to do math calculations.
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What are the Bash Arithmetic Operators?
| Arithmetic Operator | Description |
|---|---|
| ** | exponentiation |
| *, /, % | multiplication, division, remainder (modulo) |
| +, – | addition, subtraction |
| «, » | left and right bitwise shifts |
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