I am an unleet unhaxor

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I cant work this out, im sure someone here can...

What I want is for a script to read a number from a file (the file will contain nothing else, just that number) then it increments it by 1 and writes it to the file, this is what I thought it would be...

number=$(cat number) # Get number
number=($("article_number$")+1) # Increment number
echo "$article_number" > number # Write number

Im sure im close, I actually dont know anything about reading from files, I think you do it somthing like that

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num=`cat number.txt`
((num=num+1))
echo $num > number.txt


or

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expr `cat number.txt` + 1 > number.txt


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Cool thnaks, im writing a CMS in shell scripts FYI.