1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi anyone, i need to compare two decimal numbers i thought that it could be do it with if but... :( So, i'm writing in csh and i really apreciate if anyone can help me if ( $ppl_kn <= $ppl_wb ) then echo "############# KNdiscount model has the lowest perplexity" set... (5 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

How can i devide decimal numbers? I am getting this kind of error: line 18: 200.2/40.234: syntax error in expression (error token is ".2/40.234") What can i do to work around this problem? Thanks for any advice. (4 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi friends How can I use "for loop" for decimal numbers? ex: 0.1 < x < 0.6 I used this commands but does'nt work. LIMIT=0.6 for ((x=0.1; x<=LIMIT; x++)) do - - - done Many thanks (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Im trying to compare two numbers with decimals but its not working as expected. a=1 b=1.1 if then echo "equal" fi When I do this it says that the numbers are equal. Ultimately Im using -le and -ge in the if statements but I tested with -eq for simplicity. Any way to make this... (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to compare two numbers with decimal points ? Is there a way in bash to do this? (33 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi!!! I have n decimal numbers in column: 1.23 3.45 5.16 . . . How to do arithmetic sum of theese numbers??? Thanks!!!:D (4 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi experts, My number output has somehting like below filename /temp 0.23 10.23 How do i put a condition to the above numbers? e.g if then the . seem to give me problems. Pls help. thanks ---------- Post updated at 05:25 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:23 PM... (9 Replies)

8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I have a small problem with my script. I have everything in order but it doesnt seem to compare anything less than 1 correctly. If the input is more than 1, then the results is correct. If the input is 0.xxx (anything) it returns erroneous results. Pls help input=0.12 if ; then ... (7 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

For numbers between 0 and 1 the below logic is not working. Output of above shall be "correct" but its echoing "incorrect".Kindly suggest a=.1 if then echo correct else echo incorrect fi Video tutorial on how to use code tags in The UNIX and Linux Forums. (3 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Hi! I found and then adapt the code for my pipeline... awk -F"," -vOFS="," '{printf "%0.2f %0.f\n",$2,$4}' xxx > yyy I add -F"," -vOFS="," (for input and output as csv file) and I change the columns and the number of decimal... It works but I have also some problems... here my columns ... (7 Replies)