[PATCH 08/12] doc: add hint on how to calculate in hush
Holger Schurig
holgerschurig at gmail.com
Fri Jun 27 04:00:17 PDT 2014
Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <holgerschurig at gmail.com>
---
Documentation/user/hush.rst | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/user/hush.rst b/Documentation/user/hush.rst
index 2a0e630..ba4f062 100644
--- a/Documentation/user/hush.rst
+++ b/Documentation/user/hush.rst
@@ -50,3 +50,11 @@ example the :ref:`command_echo` command has the ``-a FILE`` option for appending
a file and the ``-o FILE`` option for overwriting a file. The readline
command requires a variable name as argument in which the line will be
stored.
+
+**NOTE:** hust feels like a normal Unix shell, but it cannot calculate by
+itself, i.e. $(($A/2)) won't work. Calculation can however be done
+with :ref:`command_let`::
+
+ A=10
+ let B=$A/2
+ echo $B
--
1.7.10.4
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