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decimal numbers in shell scripts

Tony LeBlanc — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:56:44 GMT

Could someone show me how to use decimal numbers in a shell script. I know bc and awk can do it, but how? examples please

Thanks,
Tony

Re: decimal numbers in shell scripts

Patrick Wallek — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 19:12:35 GMT

Here is an example of an expression in one of my scripts that does an arithmetic calculation:

used_disk1=`echo "scale=3\n$used_disk + $used_disk1" | bc`

Does this help?

Re: decimal numbers in shell scripts

Tony LeBlanc — Mon, 19 Mar 2001 19:22:17 GMT

Thanks Patrick, that does exactly what I wanted!