i have to xor two variables in ksh. how to do that?
tia,
DN2
It's easier done with Perl:
perl -le 'print (16 ^ 5)'
21
perl -le 'print (21 ^ 5)'
16
perl is no option.... its not on all systems 
A possible solution:
a=15
b=10
a_xor_b=$(perl -e "print $a^$b") <- gives 5
Jean-Pierre.
Sorry, my bad. This can be done with KSH using built in operations (I haven't really had a need for this to date).
print $(( 16 ^ 5 ))
21
print $(( 21 ^ 5 ))
16
this works... thank you so much!