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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Add non-integers using ksh Post 302115710 by 2dumb on Thursday 26th of April 2007 03:11:50 PM
Old 04-26-2007
Add non-integers using ksh?????

I would like to add 4.7 and 1.2. However I am unable to do this with expr.
Any simple ideas (even using something other than expr)?

Example:
me> expr 4 + 1
5

me> expr 4.7 + 1.2
expr: 0402-046 A specified operator requires numeric parameters.

Last edited by 2dumb; 04-26-2007 at 04:35 PM..
 

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