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Old 03-12-2005, 09:19 PM   #1
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how to use floating point values for calculations in a shell script

Please help me with the following problem

How can i use floating point values for calculations in a shell script

for example expr 14 / 3 would result in 4 not 4.67
How can I achieve the floating point value?

Please help...
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Old 03-12-2005, 10:00 PM   #2
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expr only handles integer arithmetic, sorry.
 
  


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