This has been driving me nuts for a few days now. I can't figure out how to multiply decimals in a korn script. What I have that works... time=$(($1*2)) echo $time What I have that doesn't work... time=$(($1*1.7)) echo $time Thanks in advanced, FourSKY

Someone asked about this recently and the answer was to use 'expr'. Most (if any) shells don't support fractional numbers. I suggest looking at 'man expr'

Robert: The latest version of ksh, ksh93, supports float arithmetic. Check out http://www.kornshell.com In addition to expr, you can also you other external tools such as awk or bc: x=5 y=$(bc MSG scale=1 $x * 1.7 MSG ) # the above is a unix here document, so you need two less than signs between bc & MSG. echo $y Regards, Nails

I had to install BC, but it works like a champ. Thanks Nails! FourSKY