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I’ve a file new.sh
i=5
i=$[i+1]
echo $i
when I execute ./new.sh, it shows 6. But when I execute “sh new.sh”, it shows
$[i+1]
as output. I just want to know why, and I need a code which will work on both.
Many Linux distributions use dash as their standard shell for scripts and therefore /bin/sh is only a symlink to /bin/dash, which is more lightweight, but lags some functionality compared with bash. Check that with:
If you want to write POSIX compatible scripts, you should use foo=$n; $((n=n+1)) instead of foo=$((n++)) and foo=$((n=n+1)) instead of foo=$((++n)). The form $[] is deprecated and should be avoided.