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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers converting string to number in shell script Post 302600860 by turki_00 on Wednesday 22nd of February 2012 09:16:50 AM
Old 02-22-2012
Thank you balajesuri
it works

However, I am doing this code inside a loop and then taking the average (avgT).
but the output of avgT is the integer part of the solution
I tried to use the bc method for the average but it only giving me the integer part of the solution.


Here is my code:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
myLoop=$1
i=1
timeTot=0

while [ $i -le $myLoop ]
do
timeTmp=$(grep 'Run time' input | cut -c36-39)
timeTot=`echo "$timeTot + $timeTmp" | bc`
i=$[$i+1]
done

echo "total RunTime=" $timeTot
avgT=`echo "$timeTot / $myLoop" | bc`
echo "Average RunTime=" $avgT

the output
Code:
./ids2.sh 2
total RunTime= 2.85
Average RunTime= 1

the value of Average RunTime should be = 2.85/2 = 1.425
 

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