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Old 05-17-2007, 09:01 AM   #1
ztdep
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float operation in the scripte

Hi:
I want to know how to perform the float operation in the scripte file.
we can conduct the integer operation by, for example:
expr n=$1/6
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Old 05-17-2007, 10:13 AM   #2
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Hi,
One possibility is to use the program bc with option -l:

n=`echo "${1}/6" | bc -l`

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