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Old 04-09-2009
srilaxmi srilaxmi is offline
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Deciaml Output using bc
Hi,

when I try to do echo 'scale=3; $a / 1000' | bc
here a=1500

This giving error as "syntax error on line 1 stdin"


why iam getting this error?


Thanks,
Sri