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On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 12:50:25AM +0800, Jimmy wrote:
> Hi
> Good day to you. I need your advice to wrte a script 
> 1) stores the sum of A plus B in variable C 
> 2)Stores the difference of B minus A in variable C 
> 
> If A is 5 and B is 10. Please advice me on this issue pls .
> Hope to hear from you soon.

Smells like a homework assignment to me. I'm not going to tell you the
answer, but I will tell you how to find out :P

Check out the "Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide" on tldp.org.

-- Josh

> 
> Cheers
> 
> Jimmy Chan
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