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division in shell scripts
Iam not able to device variables in a shell script..
here is the lines that i tried.. please help..

sum = echo `expr $up / ( $down )`
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Iam not able to device variables in a shell script..
here is the lines that i tried.. please help..

sum = echo `expr $up / ( $down )`
Try like this,

sum=$(print "scale = 2; $up/$down" | bc)
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$ sum=`expr $up / $down`
$ echo $sum
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$ sum=`expr $up / $down`
$ echo $sum
You will not get decimal points with this solution if the $down value is greater than $up value.
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print command is not found message is coming.
my division will give less that 0 value..
so what to do..
any other option for print
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Replace the print with echo.
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Try this
div=$(($x / $y))

This will store the result of division in the div variable.

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