1. Shell Programming and Scripting

echo "scale=2; 282.73/640" | bc This will print .44 How to make the variable as 0.44 (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, i've a code if (($A && ((!($A =~ /^\d+$/))))) { -- -- not a number } else { --- its number. } which matches for integer value, i need to modify that pattern where it matches decimal number with 2 decimal points and also integer value. for eg: values 10, 10.00. 0.1, 1 , 3 must... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I would like to test for a max number value. It may be a decimal so I know I have to pipe into bc. I just cannot get the syntax for this to work. I cannot get passed an error with the bracket - see below. Any help appreciated. Regards Ewan This works: /export/home/ewan> cat... (5 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, In my code I am checking to see if a variable that contains a decimal number is greater than 0 in the following manner: if do something fi However I am getting the error message (if $i for the current iteration holds 9.6352) command 9.6352 is not found How can I rectify... (5 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All, I have a file of decimal numbers, cat file1.txt 1.1382666907 1.2603107334 1.6118799297 24.4995857056 494.7632588468 560.7633734425 ..... I want to see the output as only 7 digits after decimal (5 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi everyone! Easy question for everyone. I'm trying to run a command line to find an exact match of a decimal number within a file. The number can be a positive OR negative number. For instance, if I want to find only the number -1 in the file that has: -17.6 -17 -16.3 -16.2 -15.7 -15.3... (6 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a below snippet of code from my perl script and its causing a problem when the output of $lTAX is 0 (zero) its getting displayed as -0.00. I want output to be 0 not -0.00. Any help would be appreciated. #!/usr/bin/perl my $lTotA = 50.94; my $lVatA = 8.49; my $lAllocD; my $lAdjNr =... (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello Everyone, In one of my script, I would like to sort the decimal numbers. For e.g. If I have numbers like 1.0 1.1 1.2 2.0 2.1 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 7.1 7.10 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9 I would like to sort them 1.0 1.1 1.2 2.0 2.1 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4... (3 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I was hoping someone could help me with a sed script I am trying to write? I am on a Mac running ElCapitan I have some text that I have converted from a pdf that I want to format into an xml file. In the file I have managed to delete all the text I do not need. The text I have left is... (8 Replies)