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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting SH if statement using FLOAT values Post 302297779 by vgersh99 on Sunday 15th of March 2009 10:25:02 AM
Old 03-15-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by ripat
I would have thought that all version of ksh support floating point calculation/comparison.

Mine does:

Code:
a=1.699999
b=1.7
if [[ $a < $b ]];then echo $a smaller than $b;fi

ksh version M 1993-12-28 s+
don't know about k93, but k88 does not.
The OP is actually asking about Bourne - the above should work Bourne as well.
 

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