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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to compare 2 floating point no. Post 302314981 by panyam on Monday 11th of May 2009 07:19:59 AM
Old 05-11-2009
Code:
 
i=5.7
if [ $i =  "5.7" ]
then
echo "equal"
else
echo "not  equal"
fi
~

will do the job .

chk this link :

https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...at-values.html
 

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