floating point representation in UNIX

Original Message

Name: Anup Kumar Maurya
Date: June 22, 2002 at 12:08:28 Pacific
Subject: floating point representation in UNIX

Comment:

hi,
how to write a shell script to read floating point numbers and do arithmetic operations.
please reply

Response Number 1

Name: PaulS
Date: June 23, 2002 at 07:32:19 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

Shell does not support floating point math. You will need to use awk for that.


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